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Our mission is to subsidize the operation of our venues, recording projects, tours and educational initiatives.
During this Covid-19 pandemic our mission is to keep the clubs floating until business can be restored.
We will also sponsor live-streamed concerts from the club that will keep the musicians working during this period.
We will also be offering emergency aid for Jazz musicians in need due to this calamity.
Archive
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Live Stream
Smalls Jazz Club has been a pioneer in live streaming and began streaming shows live from the venue in 2007.
There is no cost to watch our live streams. During normal operating times the entire evening is streamed.
During this Covid-19 pandemic period there will be special live concerts scheduled in advance.
SmallsLIVE Catalog
The SmallsLIVE Catalog is a collection of individually produced artist projects.
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Dave Scott
Trumpet
Recently Added
02/13/2024
Smalls
Dave Scott Quintet
08/02/2023
Smalls
Billy Mintz Sextet
06/15/2023
Smalls
Dave Scott Quintet
07/08/2015
Smalls
The Dave Scott Quintet
Upcoming Shows
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, Dave has been composing for and performing with his own jazz quintet and also has a new 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. Both contain some of New York’s finest jazz musicians, including Rich Perry, Gary Versace, Jeff Williams, John Hebert, Ben Monder and Ted Poor. The compositions reflect both specific forms with dense harmonic structures and open frameworks for free improvisation. The focus of both ensembles is to utilize the engaging and often complex compositions as vehicles for improvisation. The pieces develop interactively and organically allowing each musician full individual expression. The quintet released “SONG FOR AMY” on the SteepleChase label in 2004. A second disc for SteepleChase, “NAIVETE’” was released in February of 2007. The first disc received critical acclaim in JazzTimes in 2005 and the second as well in the Jazz Review in 2007, both making note of the originality of Dave’s works. A third disc, “NONCHALANT” was released in the spring of 2009 and received honorable mention for recording of the year in All About Jazz New York. Dave also co-leads a quartet with tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby. The group has a CD released on the Nine Winds label. Many of Dave’s original works are featured on this release as well. All three ensembles perform regularly in the New York City area, and on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art concert series. Dave is also a fine pianist and has been featured as a piano soloist on two of the Kim Richmond/Clay Jenkins Ensemble’s releases “RANGE” and “LOOK AT THE TIME”. He has also been featured as a trumpet soloist on Kim Richmond’s big band CD “PASSAGES”. He has also toured and recorded as a featured soloist with the Jim Widner Big Band.
As a clinician and soloist Dave has performed on numerous jazz festivals and at schools across the United States including 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, Syracuse University and the University of Utah. He has been featured at the Newport Jazz Festival with Gerry Mulligan, at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Harvey Wainapel’s Quintet, and recently performed with the Tom Harrell Big Band in Los Angeles and New York.
Dave is currently on the jazz faculty at Western Connecticut State University and formerly at the University of Southern California, Dave directs the jazz ensemble, coaches small ensembles and teaches improvisation to jazz majors. In 1984 Dave was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in jazz performance.