Scott Amendola


Scott Amendola is an American drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His styles include jazz, blues, groove, and rock.
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Early life and education

Amendola is originally from New Jersey and studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston.

Career

After relocating to California, he rose to popularity in the 1990s as a member of the band T.J. Kirk with Charlie Hunter, Will Bernard, and John Schott. Their second album, If Four Was One, received a Grammy Award nomination. Amendola has led his own bands and trios, which have included musicians such as Nels Cline, Jenny Scheinman, Jeff Parker, John Shifflett, Ben Goldberg, and Devin Hoff. He has recorded with Pat Martino, Jim Campilongo, G.E. Stinson, and Tony Furtado, among others. He is an original member of the Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core and has been a session percussionist for musicians such as Cris Williamson, Noe Venable, Carla Bozulich, and Odessa Chen.
In 2011, Amendola premiered his orchestral work Fade to Orange, performed in conjunction with the Oakland East Bay Symphony as one of their New Visions/New Vistas premieres. He was joined by Nels Cline and Trevor Dunn.

Selected discography

with T.J. KirkT.J. Kirk If Four Was One Talking Only Makes It Worse
with Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola DuoCollect My Thoughts
with Pat MartinoAll Sides Now
with Scott Amendola BandScott Amendola Band Cry Believe Lift Fade to Orange
with The Nels Cline SingersInstrumentals The Giant Pin Draw Breath The Celestial Septet with Rova Saxophone QuartetInitiate Macroscope
with L. Stinkbug – Nels Cline, G.E. Stinson, Steuart Liebig, Scott AmendolaThe Allure of Roadside Curious
with Red Pocket – Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Scott AmendolaThick
with Nels ClineNew Monastery Dirty Baby
with Plays Monk – Ben Goldberg, Devin Hoff, Scott AmendolaPlays Monk
with Bill FrisellAll Hat
with Ben Goldberg, Charlie Hunter, Ron MilesGo Home
with Charlie HunterNot Getting Behind Is the New Getting Ahead Pucker Cars/Williams/Porter/Ellington
with John Dietrich, Ben Goldberg, Scott AmendolaShort Sighted Dream Colossus
with Henry Kaiser/Scott AmendolaLeaps
with Amendola vs. BladesGreatest Hits
with Invisible Bird – Dave Devine, Shane Endsley, Scott Amendola
  • ''Flutter to Fuzz''