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Scott Gwinnell

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Introduction

Scott Gwinnell has been a composer and pianist since he was just eight years old. And over the course of a successful music career, he has also, out of necessity, become an accomplished bandleader. He’s written more than 300 pieces of music and toured with such jazz greats as Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Delfayo Marsalis, John Clayton, and Jon Hendricks, for whom Gwinnell was music director for three years. He plays with various projects, but composes mostly for his 16-piece group, the Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra. On his Mack Avenue Records/Detroit Music Factory debut however, Gwinnell stripped things down just a little.