David Thorne Scott

Thanks to the Somerville Arts Council for naming me the April Artist of the Month. There is a lovely feature written by Charan Devereaux at this link →
https://somervilleartscouncil.org/artistmonth/thornscott

I’m beginning work on a musical play about John Maynard Keynes. I’m a songwriter and lyricist looking to collaborate with a book writer. 

John Maynard Keynes was a man of contrasts. He had the mind of a brilliant economist but…

I like to mix up cover songs, standard jazz tunes, and original music in my albums and performance. Sometimes I get the question of which is which? Which is totally flattering if someone thinks I wrote, say, a Cole Porter…

What is a scene? 

Music does not take place in a vacuum. Music is at its best when it brings people together. We have lost venues in the past couple of years, like Johnny D's and Ryles. But it isn't…

Gail Leondar-Wright and Joseph Mullholand wrote this beautiful song to symbolize the one minute during which the lights would dim on Broadway to mark the passing of Stephen Sondheim. I was fortunate to get to record it. Listen here:

https://youtu.be/snJiJljkP0I

Lineup for Tommy Gallant Jazz Festival on Aug. 29

https://mailchi.mp/cc694a8a4dbe/sjs-jazz-festival-issue-july-28-2021

I get it. Sounds like hubris. 

"Healing America through music"? Who do you think you are, Scott? 

Well, I look around and it seems like this American rural/urban divide is only getting more intense. My hometown of Kearney, Nebraska has…

Check out this new review of Thornewood by George W. Harris of Jazz Weekly!

https://www.jazzweekly.com/2021/05/david-thorne-scott-thornewood/

"With an ability to mix ingredients like Bobby Flay, tenor toned David Thorne Scott successfully blends all three options on this recent album of songs…

Okay so I admit I wasn't really super looking forward to turning 50. So how to make the best of it? Invite my (vaccinated) friend and super-pianist Mark Shilansky over and perform a concert! It was streaming on ATAC160.org.

Missed…

Thanks to Ed Symkus for this lovely feature in Metrowest Daily News!

"Scott’s incredibly flexible, wide-ranging voice is, of course, at the center of “Thornewood,” which runs, stylistically, from a cool, jazzy, spare cover of John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High”…

My new jazz/americana album "Thornewood" dropped in January 2021. Of course Covid means I can't tour to promote it, so I decided to play a concert from my living room. Here are all the tunes from "Thornewood" in track order.

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