Whenever the domestic possibilities for work and recording seem exhausted, Scott leaves the country and continues his quest elsewhere on the globe. It is not only the prospect of New York experiences that draws Scott away from this country; the adventure of unfamiliar places, the probability of tapping new emotional and musical resources also keep him on the move. So he decided to leave New York to see Europe and Africa visiting different times Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Unit Kingdom, Scotland, Balkan's countries-Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, France, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium. In all the countries he collaborated with the best jazz musicians, conducted different orchestras in concerts, radio and television programs. Staring from Germany :

1967
Scott was invited by the prominent German jazz critic Jo Berendt to the Berlin Jazz Festival, in November. The festival's program had Johnny Griffin, Dexter Gordon, Jerry Gray, sarah Vaughan, Don Ellis, Monk's band, Miles' band, Archie Shepp.Tony Scott would perform with his quartet, Philly Jo Jones on drums, and also with the Indonesian All Stars group with whom, in Villingen-October 27th-28t - he had recorded Djanger Bali (Mps) , directed by pianist Bubi Chen, producer Phil Ramone.

- Hamburg with German Radio NDR Orchestra (from Nov.27th to Dec.1st): Scott have been conducting the NDR workshop and concert The Life and Death Of Charlie Parker playing clarinet. tenor and baritone saxes. Other guests musicians were Sonny Grey(tp), Don Rendell(fl, ss, ts), Dominique Chanson(fl, ss, as), Pierre Cavalli(g), Mal Waldron(p),Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson(b), and Alex Riel(d).
- Broadcasted by Bremen Radio - musicians Albert Mangelsdorff(Lead., tb), Emil Mangelsdorff (as, fl),Rolf Huber (d), and Gunter Lenz (b)
- a program of avant-guard songs, with compositions by Mangelsdorff, and his own free improvisation on clarinet Love Bird (dedicated to Charlie Parker). He also played a duo called Original Folk Song, with the fine Czechoslovakian clarinetist, Karel Krautgartner, on a theme from an old folk song.

1968
Recklinghausen, for Germany NDR Radio(June 14th ) : he conducted an international orchestra with guests Jimmy Owens(tp, flgh), Palle Muckleburg(tp), Slide Hampton(tb), Ale Persson(tb), Clifford Jordan(fl, ts), Phil Woods(cl, as), Tony Scott(cl, brs, voc), Ole Molin(g) Freddie Sunder(g), Eddie Louis(p, org), Niels Henning - Orsted Pedersen(b), Alex Riel(d), and Knut Kiesewetter(voc).
The program of Scott's songs was titled , The Wonderful World of Jazz, began with African Chant dedicated to African God Chango, followed by some songs in New Orleans style (Rag Time, Blues, Spirituals), and others inspired by Dixieland, Swing and Be Bop; Oh My Lord, a spiritual composed by Tony Scott for Martin Luther King, ending with Free at Last.

Tony left from Europe to Africa where this time he remained for two years…

"Searching for the roots of Afro-American Jazz, the melodies, the feeling, and above all the pulse and rhythms of Africa, an integral part of the birth, life, and death of every being…and the indispensable base in the creation of jazz. I could listen to, and absorb music and tribal rhythms, and the nature, sounds, smells and life of the African people." (Tony Scott)

Tony traveled through Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Liberia and Morocco, (playing 6 months in Marrakech at the Mamounia Hotel); then on to Senegal, Dakar, to record for 4 months at the American Embassy, equipped with two Ampex tape machines, with African musicians (two fantastic 17 year percussionists, 30 year old Emmanuel from Cameroon (voice and bells) and Oyeah MacKenzie-Papa Akaye from Ghana (tp, flute, bells, and voice).
From that experience two records remain:
one with this group, titled Mayibue Afrika! Uhuuru!Uhuuru! Long Live Afrika, Freedom! (Music of the World 12536-Italy)- a slogan repeated two times by the Mau-Mau for the liberation of Kenya
and Music for Voodoo Meditation, recorded by Tony alone, on African percussions, in 1971 in Germany (Polydor, Germany/France)

From Africa to Europe:
"I came to Europe in 1970. I always liked to travel around and that is one reason I suppose I'm not on the festival circuits. People kind of forgot about Tony Scott. I would like to be plugged into festivals. I'm doing OK, but I could use a little more work...I like to play...but not too much." Tony Scott

Tony played with great success at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland with the pianist Junior Mance's Trio. Martin Riviera (b) was to play with him at the next day's jam session with Gerry Mulligan. Scott also jammed with then unknown Carlos Santana.

Scott arrived in Sicily in 1970 to play at the July 18th Palermo Pop Festival '70, organized by Joe Napoli. Other guest performers were the Duke, Aretha Franklin, Phil Woods, Kenny Clark, the Francy Boland Band, and many others of the Pop music world.
On the 30th of October, he appeared at the London Jazz Expo '70 with Alan Broadbent (p), Ron Mathewson(b), and Tony Oxley(d). On that same program were Ray Charles, Elvin Jones, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Sonny Terry, Buddy Rich, and Gerry Mulligan.

"The sensation of the Expo '70 for me turned out to be clarinetist Tony Scott...He plays it with a sound like an oboe forged out of cast iron, with a power that makes Bechet seem gentle. His "Blues for Charlie Parker" will remain the high spot of Jazz Expo '70." (Daily Mail-James Greenwood)

When he went to Sicily, to see his parents, he saw the concert's poster of pianist Romano Mussolini. In Alcamo Scott met him and they teamed up for a series of concerts in Italy. The collaboration lasted 5 years. They started with 5 performances per month arriving at 20 concerts a month by July / August of the 4th year. They played together also in Tony's father's native city, Salemi on October 1971, and in 1972 at the Pescara Jazz Festival , and at Milano's Jazz Power -from March 29th through April 3rd.
In November and December of that same year he completed a tour of American East-Coast cities with the Romano Mussolini Trio and Italian singer, Betty Curtis to perform in New York's Town Hall (Nov.25), in Brooklyn's Walter Theatre (Dec.3), and in New Jersey. From a live concert in 1973 with Mussolini's Trio, Scott made a double record album The Sound of Strings for his own private label, in which at Studio Fontana in Milan, Scott overdubbed the ballads with synthesizer strings.

In Italy, Tony established the first Jazz Club in Rome, in the basement of the Savoy Hotel on Via Veneto. He invited Italian musicians like Marcello Rosa(tb), and foreigners like Irio De Paula(g) from Brazil, American singer Edith Peters, (who was part of the Peters Sisters group) and many others. Using T. Scott's words as appeared in the Herald Tribune:

"You know, I grew up on 52nd Street. I sat in with B. Holiday, Art Tatum asked me to sit in, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker… so I try to repay the debt with younger guys now…" (Tony Scott)

Well known as a hard-jammer Tony still sits and plays in every place with everyone. Tony started a series of Jam Sessions at the Music Inn in Rome, a Jazz Club founded by Pepe Pignatelli(d) playing with Italian jazz artists Giovanni Tommaso(b), Bruno Biriaco(d), and Stefano Listini(p), with additional American musicians who lived in Europe that alternated between performers like Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Chet Baker and others.

Wherever he performed, Tony Scott continuously strived to recreate an environment of Black jazz of the Harlem Jam Sessions. Setting an example and teaching through his performances filled with his powerful vitality, he has been a fundamental presence for the growth of emerging musicians and the Italian jazz public. Friends and followers continue recounting with delight the stories, both comical and dramatic, impressed by his prodigious, destabilizing presence, his genius, sense of humor, peculiarities, his extrovertness…his energetic being turns every single event into a happening…

In 1971 Tony Scott was voted best jazz clarinetist in the world by the Annual International Critic's Poll on USA Magazine Jazz and Pop.

In January 1971 Tony Scott was a guest of the Marcello Rosa Orchestra at Teatro delle Vittorie (Rome) for the concert of Italian television program Jazzapoppin, in which he played Why I Sing the Blues and his own Blues for Charlie Parker. Following he also recorded with Marcello Rosa the disc Friendship(1974).
In the following years Tony Scott was the director and soloist of the Roma and Milano RAI Radio Orchestras, which featured some of the Italian musicians such as Cicci Santucci(tp), Oscar Valdambrini(tp), Dino Piana(tb), Gianni Basso(ts), Salvatore Genovese(ts), Al Corvini(tp) and Roberto Zappulla(d).
The only record which emerged from these collaborations is of a May 23rd 1973 concert, with Conte Candoli and Frank Rosolino, transmitted throughout the UER (Union European Radio). One can fully grasp Scott's talent as a soloist, his originality as an arranger/composer, and his extraordinary virtuosity as a scat singer on Gossiper and his rendition of Jazz Tarantella, in homage to his Sicilian roots.
The collaborations with Italian radio RAI 3 Jazz programs, were followed in the years with concerts and numerous appearances as soloist or as leader of small combos.

In 1975 in Bologna, Dizzy and I sat around with eddie Lockjaw davis, Bobby Tucker, Bobby Rosengarten, Dick Hyman and jimmy Maxwell, all old friend who I worked with in the past. i asked Dizzy how he and Bird used to get their music together. he said they rehearsed it and then learned it at the recording session. Everything was done the day of recording. I've known Diz since he played with Benny Carter's quintet on 52ns Street, on '41. it's always a gas to see and hear him. As a person and a trumpeter, Diz is in the true tradition of Louis Armstrong. Hot Lips page, Red Alien and Roy Eldridge. (Tony Scott)

In 1976, on May 12th , at Palermo jazz Festival , he jammed with Lionel Hampton in a swinging improvisation on Flying Home. By the end of 1977 he was back on the road travelling throughout Europe:

Czechoslovakia
Prague: In 1977 Scott recorded Boomerang (October 14th) with the Traditional Jazz Studio Orchestra during their tour of Czechoslovakia. For 'Supraphone' Scott recorded with Rudolf Dasek(g), Dialogues and, in 1978, Conversation, with Dasek and Jiri Stivin(fl,ts,vcl). n the same year Scott played with the Czech Radio Band directed by Kamil Hala (Supraphone).

Hungary
In 1978, Scott played at Tata's International Festival

Germany
At the Cologne's Witten Theatre, from the 17th to the 28th of November 1980, Scott directs a workshop and concert with the German WDR Big Band on Tribute to Charlie Parker. Guest artists at the program were Jiggs Whigham(tb), Ray Warleigh(as), and Benny Bailey(tp), and Kenny Clarke. In addition to Cherokee, Tony would play his song Sweet Pree, dedicated to Parker's daughter who died March 8, 1954.

France
In Paris, from 20th to 22nd he played at Latitudes Saint Germain's concerts.

England
In London, in 1981, he played 4 evenings at Pizza Express together with the Pizza Express All Star Band and with Eddie Thompson and Jay McShann's trio.

Switzerland
In Lucerne, that same year, Tony conducted the DRS Zurich Big Band, usually directed by Hans Moeckle. He proposed recording his arrangements of some Ellington's repertoire and his own compositions. Out of that CD recording came Live, released in' Blue Jazz' magazine (Italy) in an issue entirely dedicated to Tony Scott.

Sweden
Stockholm, in October 1981, recordings of Radio programs and concerts.

Holland
Hilversum, he recorded (in septet and quartet) with Thomy Moeckle, Glenn Ferris, David Klein, Marcel Shrinscry , Cees Shrama, and George Brown. During this period he recorded part of a projected for two Lush Life discs, tribute of his favorite song. The recordings were completed in 1984. They feature many versions of the song played with great originality, for baritone sax, for clarinet, voice, rap, scat, as well as a duet with Bill Frisell in a delirious, frenzied monologue and a 20-minute elaborate arrangements for piano. The 'prayer' version sung by Tony's daughter Monica Sciacca was recorded when she was 12 years of age.

Tony showed up again on the American jazz scene in New York in 1983:
USA
During a brief visit, Scott played at the Village West Club during a concert in which Tal Farlow and Buddy DeFranco were playing together:

"The set did become a session. Clarinetist Tony Scott , back from living everywhere else but the States for the last 20 years, jumped into the fray. Scott, with his black turtleneck, black leotards, black boots, shaved head and dragon's tooth necklace, looked like Ming the Merciless about to punish Flash Gordon. Instead, he punished his clarinet. There are no halfway measures with Scott. When he blows, it's the North Wind howling." (Don Nelsen-N.Y. Daily News)

He also played at Jazzmania, 40 West 27th St. (March 20th), at a Clarinet Summit together with Kenny Davern, Eddie Daniels, Ron Odrich, Marc Whitecage, Mike Morgenstern, and Perry Robinson.

In 1984,Tony Scott returned to Europe covering the roads of the festivals:

Italy
Reggio Emilia Festival-Homage to Duke Ellington (May 24th) Tony duoed with Max Roach in It Don't Mean a Thing and accompanied himself on piano singing Lush Life.
Pompei's Festival (July 23rd) featuring Tony Scott Quartet and Phil Woods Quartet.

Belgium
Antwerp's festival (August 11th): performing with Richard Boone(tb), Kenny Drew(p), Roger Vanhaverbeke(b), and Ed Thigpen(d).

Italy
Palermo Palazzo Butera's Jazz Club: Tony is guest of the Brass Group with Salvatore Bonafede(p), Gianni Costa(b), and Tony Arcodia(d)

Yugoslavia
Belgrade: Scott is guest of RTB Big Band recording at Studio VI Radio Beograda -conductor Zvonimir Skerl- Big Band RTB with American Guest Vol.2.

Italy
In 1985, he went to Sicily to play at Acireale's Festival. The day after the festival closed, Tony gathered musicians Michel Hendricks(vcl), Walter Smucker(b), David Leonard(p), Italians Tinio Tracanna(b), and Walter Zanchi(b), and the young local jazz musicians for a jam session which lasted 4 hours, at the Grotta Smeralda Theatre.

In recent years, Tony's principal activity along with his constant travelling is one not known to many. In the contemporary music scene he cuts unrehearsed recordings during his studies of countries. He is an intuitive experimenter when it comes to music that is meditative, spatial, avant-guard…where it fuses genres and styles. He is capable of absorbing many cultures, epochs, and types of styles, leaving the music to flow in an original and holistic manner. The recordings have not yet been issued. Those which have been edited and are available to hear are the following:

Meditation, also titled Boomerang, a duo with guitarist Jan Akkerman (Polydor-Holland);
African Bird, recorded between London in 1981 and Milan in 1984, and inspired by African sounds, and dedicated to Charlie Parker and the souls which return after death to their countries (Black Saints-Milano);
Voyage Into a Black Hole (Germany 1988), three CD's of spatial music, compositions of radio waves, clarinet and synthesizer recorded alone.(Core Records-Hamburg);

Among the still unpublished compositions:
Requiem for D-Day Heroes, a suite homage to Normandy's Omaha Beach American's landing, recorded in 1985:
French artist and Tony's dear friend Philippe Maillot, made in 1992 a video taped of himself painting on a rolling oversized canvas to this Tony's music;

Lidice, dedicated to the children and people of Lidice (Czechoslovakia) killed by the Nazis in June 1942.

Scott's further jazz presence in:
1988, Italy - Rome: on the 12th of January Tony was special guest with Dizzy Gillespie and his Quintet on the RAI 2-television program International Doc Club conducted by the singer Gegè Telesforo, where they improvised in an unrestrained race of scat-trio.
-1989, Switzerland - Zurich: in April, Tony recorded with the Hungarian virtuoso pianist Gustav Csik, (considered by Scott to be the best European jazz pianist today) on long duets between clarinet and piano, and swinging and singing versions of Lush Life. The clarinet in Old Folks song is another example of great skill.
1990, France - Paris: on June 17, at New Morning he played at his 69th Birthday Concert, with a lot of French and International guest musicians among whom were Rufus Harley(bagpipes), Joe Lee(vcl), Glenn Ferris(tb), and many others. The event was filmed by Philippe Maillot.
1991, France - Paris: at Le Meridien Hotel Jazz Club he played in jam session with Dizzy Gillespie. The concert was filmed by Philippe Maillot who in the same year began work on a new paint Masks, based on Tony Scott's free clarinet pieces