The Don Scott Trio

Don Scott – guitar
Dan Fortin – bass
Mack Longpre – drums

COVER: $20

DON SCOTT is a JUNO-nominated Toronto-based guitarist and composer, international touring artist, and a well-known force in Canada’s creative music scenes. Don brings an unshakable energy and originality to his own music and is sought after by many musicians as the “X-factor” in other projects. His melodic inventiveness, rhythmic fluidity, and passion for delving into sound and texture are essential to his many ongoing projects, including Peripheral Vision, FOG, Limerence Quartet, God’s Gift To Yoda, Songs Of The Doomed, Don Scott Trio, The Offbeat, Don’t Worry Darlin’, and Idioteque, which showcases Don’s vocal skills, performing the music of Radiohead. In demand as a versatile sideman, Don has performed with international jazz legends, David Binney, Chris Potter, Jim Black, Dave Douglas, and Ernest Ranglin, and a “who’s who” of Canadian jazz players. Don has also spent time living in New York and Berlin, where he studied with renowned composer, John Hollenbeck, guitarists Adam Rogers, Ben Monder, and saxophonist, Donny McCaslin. Don’s piece, “Backbone” won the Galaxie Rising Star Award for best composition presented at the Montreal Jazz Festival.