Jazz Articles about Scott Healy

About Scott Healy

Album Review

The Biscodini Organ Trio: Lockdown

Read "Lockdown" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
September 22, 2021

With Lockdown, the Biscodini Organ Trio don't exactly reinvent the instrumental concept at the heart of its name, but the album does go a long way in reminding us of its self-renewing nature. The collective light touch tendered by this guitar/keyboard/drums ensemble taps the potential of the format in such a way both the material and its musicianship sounds equally fresh and infectious. This reaffirmation of one of the most viable concepts in jazz is all the more ...

Album Review

Scott Healy - Glenn Alexander Quartet: Northern Light

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 12, 2013

Prima di ascoltare, un CD si vede, si tocca, poi si apre, si leggono i nomi, la data d'incisione e, se capita di notare che c'è un largo margine di tempo tra la data di incisione e quella di stampa, come nel caso del disco Northern light, la curiosità di ascoltare quel prodotto aumenta. L'aspettativa che si ha di fronte ad una pubblicazione inedita di un album registrato vent'anni prima diventa enorme. Ci si chiede il motivo di una scelta ...

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Take Five With Scott Healy

by AAJ Staff
January 16, 2013

Meet Scott Healy:Scott Healy is a classically-trained pianist and composer who in the past three decades has performed and recorded many jazz, blues and rock artists, from Tony Bennett and B.B. King, to Bruce Springsteen, Levon Helm and Christina Aguilera. In addition, Scott has written concert music for symphony orchestra, chamber groups, film scores, and for a wide variety of original jazz and modern music projects. He is perhaps best-known for his longtime role in the house band ...

Album Review

Scott Healy-Glenn Alexander Quartet: Northern Light

Read "Northern Light" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 1, 2013

In today's fast-paced world, there's a tendency to try to write, record and release music in quick succession, but that's not always the best method. Sometimes, recorded music sounds best when it's had the chance to marinate and soak up the diverse flavors of time. Such is the case with the unintentional decades-long gap between the recording and release of this album. Pianist Scott Healy and guitarist Glenn Alexander recorded Northern Light in 1991, when they were ...