Rusty Scott Late Night Jam Session

Live music is back on stage at The Mad Monkfish! For those who can’t make it to the Jazz Baroness Room, Monkfish now streams live all of its performances on their Facebook page. House band plays a set and then invites guests to sit in on this late-night instrumentals jam.

Rusty Scott, piano

Rusty Scott has been the leader and pianist in the group since its inception in 1994. He has shouldered the responsibility of organizing, booking, and writing for the band and remains the backbone of its sound and direction. Performing professionally in New England since 1990 as a soloist and in a wide variety of groups, Rusty has been a fixture in the Boston jazz scene for a number of years. Rusty grew up in northern New Jersey and Burlington, Vermont. He began playing piano at the age of eight. His jazz studies began with Burlington jazz musician, Bruce Sklar, while attending the University of Vermont. In 1989 he moved on to Berklee College of Music in Boston to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance studying with Michael Marra, one of Boston’s’ finest bop pianists and Bob Winter of the Boston Pops. More recently he has been traveling to New York regularly to receive training from Mike LeDonne, one of the city’s top flight pianists who has worked with Milt Jackson, Benny Golson, and countless others. Rusty is heavily influenced by many of the traditional be-bop piano players such as Red Garland, Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly, Barry Harris, Bud Powell, and Hank Jones while keeping his ear tuned to many of the more modern players of jazz. He is also responsible for helping initiate jazz night at what is now known as the Karma Club on Lansdowne Street. He has performed for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the Greek and Russian Consulates, among many others. Since graduating from Berklee, Rusty has free-lanced throughout New England performing with such notables as John Turner, Henrietta Robinson, Mike Turk, Greg Abate, and Lello Molinari.