Dave Scott is an award winning trumpet player with a wide range of professional experience who has worked with some of the greatest jazz artists in the world.   Currently residing in New York City, Dave has been composing for and performing with his own jazz quintet and also has a second project featuring violin, piano, guitar, bass and drums.  He is recognized in the New York jazz community as a prolific composer and his groups feature his compositions exclusively.  He has a number of recordings under his own name on the prestigious SteepleChase jazz label all of which have received critical acclaim.    As a clinician and soloist Dave has performed on numerous jazz festivals and at schools across the United States including the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, the University of Illinois, the University of Missouri, the University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University, the University of Oregon, California Institute of the Arts and Syracuse University.  He has been featured at the Newport Jazz Festival with Gerry Mulligan, at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Harvey Wainapel’s Quintet and has performed with the Tom Harrell Big Band in Los Angeles and New York.   In 1984 Dave was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in jazz performance.   Dave is currently on the jazz faculty at the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and formerly at Western Connecticut State University and the University of Southern California.