Tony Scott

Tony Scott (Anthony Joseph Sciacca, 1921-2007) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger and bandleader, born in Morristown, New Jersey, who died in Rome. A leading clarinetist of 1950s New York jazz with a cool style, he left the US in 1959 and spent long periods in Asia, where his work with local musicians led to Music for Zen Meditation, often called the first new-age record. Tony Scott studied at Juilliard from 1940 to 1942, worked with Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan, and had Bill Evans and Paul Motian in his bands.