1954, December 28 - NYC
	Tony Scott(lead, cl), Jimmy Nottingham (trp), G.Reat Done aka Kai Winding (trb), Eddie Wasserman (ts), Danny Bank( bs), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d) 1. Vendome (J. Lewis) (arr. Tony Scott) 2. Blue Room (arr. Dick Hyman) 3. Riding High (arr. Dick Hyman) 4. Late Show (arr. Bobby Scott)
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REVIEW

Like virtue, talent is its own reward.
The utter simplicity of this truth is undoubtedly nowhere better demonstrated than in this remarkable series of recordings by the phenomenal clarinetist Tony Scott - one of those marvelously exciting musical figures who come along only-too-rarely to show us just how colorful, inventive, and honest good jazz can be.

It is certainly surprising, and more than a little incredible, how few new clarinet stars have risen on the musical horizon since the heyday of Goodman and Shaw - those who really have something to say could easily be counted on the fingers of one hand, and it would not be too much to say that there would be a few digits left over.
Young Mr. Scott is, by any standards, a great clarinetist and, on the strength of these performances alone, very possibly one of the modern jazz 'most brilliant spokesmen regardless of instrument. For Tony, in addition to possessing an irreproachable technique, is also that elusive thing - a thinking musician.
He has studied long and well, and is now offering to the jazz world the fruits of that impressive learning. From no matter what tree, there are none tastier around.

The seven piece band assembled for this date of September 28, 1954 included, in addition to Tony, the saxes of Eddie Wasserman (tenor), and Danny Bank (baritone); G: Reat Dane (aka Kai Winding n.d.r.) on trombone; Jimmy Nottingham on trumpet; Milt Hinton on bass, and Osie Johnson on drums. The absence of guitar and piano contributed to the very special sound we hear - a solid groundwork over which Tony blows at his impressive best. there are no other soloists, for Tony is - and rightly so - the whole show; it is not often that jazz can offer such brilliant, lucid and logical individual exposé.

John Lewis's by - now classic Vendome was arranged by Tony; in it we hear not only the workings of his seemingly endless imagination in the actual performance, but a feeling for texture which places him in the front rank of jazz arrangers. Both Blue Room and Riding High were arranged by Dick Hyman, while composer Bobby Scott was responsible for Late Show.
Throughout the proceedings Tony may be heard in a variety of ever-changing moods, but one thing that does not change is his combination of genius and taste - these two cannot but go together and, in Mr. Scott, have met with one of their most remarkable exponents. Bill Zeitung