ALCHEMIST

12/13/2009 10:00 PM at The Rusty Scott Organ Group
435 South Huntington Avenue, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130
Cost: Always Free

The Group has played at numerous festivals and clubs throughout New England and New York; including, The Regattabar, Ryles, The Hatch Shell, and Wally’s Café to name just a few. In addition to their healthy schedule of recording and club work, the Rusty Scott Quartet is regularly featured on New England radio stations such as WMBR, WHRB, WGBH and WERS in Boston. Members of the band, having been schooled at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory / Thelonius Monk Institute, have all played nationally and internationally including appearances with the likes of Danilo Perez, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Heath, Jackie McLean, Wayne Shorter, T.S. Monk, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and James Moody, Bill Pierce, Yoron Israel, Robin Kenyatta, Slide Hampton, John Faddis, and Arturo Sandoval. In addition to their healthy schedule of recording and club work, the Rusty Scott Quartet are regularly featured on New England radio stations such as WMBR, WHRB, WGBH and WERS in Boston. Their second CD release Short Bread was feted on September 7, 2000 with a packed house at the Regattabar in Cambridge, Mass. The Rusty Scott Organ Group Check out this bluesy, funky, and definitely greasy spin-off band with Rusty Scott on Hammond “B-3” organ, Tim Mayer on saxes, Mike Mele on guitar and David Brophy on drums. They play both original compositions by Rusty Scott and classic organ trio standards. This band is guaranteed to part the hair on your head and get your body moving. They’ve played at Ryles and The Regattabar and worked with The Bill Pierce Band, Yoron Israel’s “Organic”, Andy McGhee, and “Sax” Gordon Beadle. Check out some of the sound clips above!