Scott Amendola Trio October 25, 2010

Lift marks the debut recording of the Scott Amendola Trio, but the leader’s relationship with Parker and Shifflett stretches back through several years and a variety of configurations.
Amendola and Parker studied at Berklee College of Music together in the late eighties, and Shifflett entered the picture a few years later, after Amendola relocated to the Bay Area.

All three first combined, along with guitarist Nels Cline and violinist Jenny Scheinman, on Believe (Cryptogramophone, 2005) by the drummer’s long-running quintet.

His most renowned sideman gig is supplying the requisite open-minded intensity for the Nels Cline Singers. He has integrated the music of Thelonious Monk, James Brown, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk with the nineties funk-jazz group T.J. Kirk, the first of many collaborations with guitarist Charlie Hunter; taken a wholly different but equally slanted view on the Monk book with the collective trio Plays Monk along with bassist Devin Hoff and clarinetist Ben Goldberg; and burrowed deep into Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s “Far East Suite” in a duo with
Hammond B-3 organist Wil Blades.

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