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Clifford Scott

Percy France: Live from the West End

by Daniel Gould
August 27, 2026

 If you know Percy France, most likely you are a fan of “greasy" organ jazz, particularly on Blue Note Records during their classic era. He was an integral part of Jimmy Smith's Home Cookin' (1959) and Freddie Roach's Down to Earth (1962). Or perhaps you came to jazz through r&b acts like the Bill Doggett combo. The ...

Take Five with Tubist Jim Shearer

by AAJ Staff
December 7, 2023

Meet Jim Shearer Jim Shearer was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, in 1964. His family owned the local newspaper, The North Mississippi Herald, from 1943-2004, and his father was an active musician on the side, playing jazz saxophone and serving as Minister of Music at the family church (but never at the same time!). After spending ...

Prolific Austin composer, first call pianist Rich Harney dies suddenly at 66

March 21, 2020

Austin is mourning the loss of one of its finest and most beloved musicians, pianist Rich Harney. Harney passed away on January 5, 2020, just before a Sunday night trio gig at The Elephant Room. Born in Champaign, Illinois, Harney was a prolific composer first inspired by the recordings of Oscar Peterson. Influences include Thelonious Monk, ...

Clifford Scott: Out Front

March 28, 2017

Jazz fans view the saxophone narrowly. What I mean is that we tend to think of the reed instrument in a straight line from Frankie Trumbauer in the '20s and Benny Carter and Bud Freeman in the '30s to Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane and ...

Chocolate Malt

By Clifford Scott

Label: EmArcy
Released: 1965

Lavender Sax

By Clifford Scott

Label: EmArcy
Released: 1964

Out Front!

By Clifford Scott

Label: Pacific Jazz
Released: 1963
Track listing: Samba De Bamba; Over And Over; As Rosie And Ellen Dance; Cross Talk; Why Don't You Do Right; Just Tomorrow; Out Front;

Lavender Sax / Beach Bunny

By Clifford Scott

Label: EmArcy
Released: 0

Crosstalk / Samba La Bamba (Bossa Nova)

By Clifford Scott

Label: EmArcy
Released: 0