Andrew Scott Valentine’s Jazz Set
Catch Andrew Scott playing a solo jazz set over dinner hour in our hotel’s main bar! It’ll be the perfect accompaniment to our Valentine’s day menu. 6pm. $15/PWYC.
A jazz guitarist, Andrew has worked as an in-demand side person, led his own bands with a focus on classic jazz repertoire, and performed and recorded with such musicians as Bernie Senensky, Dan Block, Harry Allen, Grant Stewart, Jim Clayton (The Clayton/Scott Group), Ben Paterson, Randy Sandke, and Jon-Erik Kellso for such labels as Cellar Live, Marshmallow, Boomtang, and Sackville Records. Andrew has performed for members of the House of Lords, international dignitaries, and two former Canadian Prime Ministers. His latest album, Horizon Song with Kelsley Grant, Amanda Tosoff, Neil Swainson, and Order of Canada winner Terry Clarke was released on Cellar Live records in 2024. Andrew’s guitar playing and compositions are featured on saxophonist’s Alex Dean’s 2025 album Put it There by Bari-ed Alive (Sony/Cornerstone Records).
Andrew has committed himself to learning from the elders of this music and has enjoyed meaningful musical relationships with the late drummer Archie Alleyne—for whom he worked as side musician, music director of Alleyne’s Evolution of Jazz Ensemble, and co-composer of “Syncopation: Life in the Key of Black”—and the nonagenarian pianist Gene DiNovi, with whom Andrew has recorded three albums.
Andrew’s music has been heard internationally in film and television (“Pretend We’re Kissing,” “Once a Thief,” CBC’s “The Border” and “Kim’s Convenience”), and his writing about music has appeared in Downbeat Magazine, Wax Poetics, CODA (where he was the final Managing Editor), Jazz Research Journal, the Havurah Journal, We Jazz, the Humber Literary Review, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and in more than one hundred sets of jazz liner notes.
Andrew is looking forward to his first trip to Wolfe Island for an evening of jazz compositions, blues, bebop, and ballads. He will be joined by bassist Oscar Evans.
