Thornewood

David Thorne Scott

Label: self-produced
Released: 2021
Views: 787

Tracks

Rocky Mountain High; If I Needed You; Fall Into You; In the Still of the Night; You Are There; One For My Baby; The Dark Side; Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye; Deciding Where To Land; The Summer Knows; Grow; Rocky Mountain High (Outro)

Personnel

David Thorne Scott

voice / vocals

Mark Shilansky

piano

Kevin Barry

guitar

Marty Ballou

bass

Austin McMahon

drums

Paula Cole

voice / vocals

Peter Eldridge

voice / vocals

Sara Caswell

violin

Jason Palmer

trumpet

Walter Smith III

saxophone, tenor

Thaddeus Hogarth

harmonica

Album Description

I’ve been an East Coast jazz guy for all of my adult life, but for me the music washes through the prairie grass of my home state of Nebraska. That duality has always made me a bit different. I’m usually either the hippest or the squarest person in the room. This album is my attempt to reconcile these two sides of my soul. I wanted to see if blazing bebop trumpet and weeping steel guitar could play nicely together. There are songs from the Great American Songbook, plainspoken Texas songwriters and slick film composers. My original songs are inspired musically by hard bop, lyrically by the Great Plains. The fury that accompanies urban-vs-rural thinking in this country is not sustainable. Sooner or later we’re going to have to recognize the humanity in each other. I want jazz fans to love the mournful hollow tone of wide-open spaces. And I want fans of Americana music to love the electric crackle of city nights.