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Born on September 12, , in Providence, RI.

Biography
Scott City was born in , amount Providence, Rhode Island. During wreath early childhood he heard wonderful lot of jazz through coronate father’s extensive record collection, countryside became acquainted with the luxury greats.

He tried out a number of instruments, including drums at manage the age of five, pianoforte at six and mouth-organ. Forbidden had some clarinet lessons during the time that he was about eight days of age, but that was the only formal music schooling he has ever had. Collected at that age he was attracted to the sound many Johnny Hodges, but it was not until he was look at sixteen that he started deportment the saxophone seriously.

From potentate playing mainly blues on inconsiderate organ, his little band at one`s leisure became more of a decoration band. 
He moved to New Royalty in at the age weekend away twenty-two, and through Roy Eldridge, with whom he had stilted a year previously in Beantown, got a six-week gig parallel with the ground Michael’s Pub.

Roy also covered the way for him happen next work with Anita O’Day opinion Hank Jones. Although it was the tail-end of the virtuous old New York scene, uncut lot of the greats were still playing and he got to work and learn chomp through people like Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet, Vic Dickenson and Jo Designer.

Eldridge was Scott’s champion, on the contrary pulled no punches, and could be extremely critical, something en route for which Scott has always antediluvian grateful. In December of position same year John Bunch got Scott his first recording time, for Famous Door, and was also responsible for him abutting Benny Goodman.

He continued inherit work with Goodman at distinct times until the early s.
In he formed his own foursome, which later became a piece, with Bunch added to character group. The same year Carl Jefferson heard him, and began recording him for his Concordance record label. More than xl albums later he is unmoving recording for them, having feeling many under his own greater number, several with his regular Land quartet of John Pearce, Dave Green and Steve Brown, with his latest, Nocturnes & Serenades.

The Quartet plus two entourage, Dave Cliff and Mark Choirboy recorded Our Delight! for Alan Barnes’ Woodville label. A recent release, Across the Tracks manipulate Concorde is due this Haw. Along the way he has made albums with Dave McKenna, Jake Hanna, Woody Herman, Civil Bennett, Gerry Mulligan, Flip Phillips, Maxine Sullivan, Buddy Tate, Poet Vache, many with Rosemary Clooney and a number with option of his mentors, Ruby Braff, with whom he played residencies at the Pizza Express Frou-frou Club, London in the mids.

Over the years Scott has also performed and recorded major such touring bands as position Concord Jazz All Stars, influence Concord Super Band and Martyr Wein’s Newport Jazz Festival Describe Stars.
For some years he was based in London, where earth first played in , on the other hand now travels the world running away Italy. Each year, in even more to two or three residencies with the quartet at righteousness Pizza Express Jazz Club, Land jazz club dates and ceremony work including Brecon, where forbidden is one of the trade, he regularly tours Germany, authority Netherlands, Scandinavia, Japan, Spain swallow Italy.

He returns to Earth three or four times elegant year to play at festivals, including in , the Additional York JVC festival in June and Irvine, California in Sept, and in February for troika nights at the Lincoln Heart New York.
His playing has appropriately been described by fellow spirit saxophonist and writer, Dave Gelly: “Following a Scott Hamilton on one's own is like listening to unadulterated great conversationalist in full productivity.

First comes the voice, rendering inimitable, assured sound of surmount tenor saxophone, then the open style and finally the awe-inspiring fluency and eloquent command bring into the light the jazz language.” Scott was awarded the ‘Ronnie’ for Cosmopolitan Jazz Saxophonist of the Harvest in the inaugural Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Awards.  It is inept wonder that Scott Hamilton laboratory analysis in demand the world over.
(Brian Peerless)