1. Arthur Budd Scott was an American jazz guitarist, banjoist and singer.
19 Facts About Bud Scott
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Bud Scott was one of the earliest musicians associated with the New Orleans jazz scene.
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Bud Scott was able to make a living as a professional musician through the 1930s, when traditional jazz was eclipsed by big-band swing music, and formed his own trio.
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In 1944 Bud Scott joined an all-star combination that evolved into Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans-style jazz in the 1940s, and he wrote the majority of the band's arrangements.
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Arthur Budd Scott, known as Bud Scott, was born January 11,1890, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Bud Scott left New Orleans with a large travelling show in 1912.
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Bud Scott played on a number of Victor Talking Machine Company ragtime recordings with James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra in 1913.
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Bud Scott worked with Europe at Vernon and Irene Castle's fashionable nightclub, but he remained in New York when the orchestra accompanied the Castles on their first national tour.
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Bud Scott studied music theory with Walter Damrosch, and he later graduated from the Peabody School of Music.
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Bud Scott found work playing banjo with Bob Young in Baltimore in 1917.
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In 1923 Bud Scott moved to Chicago and replaced Bill Johnson in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
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Bud Scott was the first person to use a guitar in a modern dance orchestra, in Dave Peyton's group accompanying Ethel Waters at Chicago's Cafe de Paris.
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In 1929 Bud Scott was one of the many New Orleans musicians who moved to California.
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In 1944 Bud Scott joined an all-star traditional New Orleans band that led the West Coast revival, put together for the CBS Radio series The Orson Welles Almanac.
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Ory and Bud Scott co-wrote "Get Out of Here", one of the 16 sides the band recorded.
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Bud Scott was one of the jazz greats who performed and appeared in the 1947 film, New Orleans.
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Uncredited, Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band performed on the soundtrack of the 1947 RKO feature film, Crossfire, with clarinetist Barney Bigard; "I do remember Bud Scott had to sing Shine in that old deep voice of his," Bigard later recalled.
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Bud Scott was performing with Ory's band in San Francisco in September 1948 when he suffered a severe stroke that forced him to retire from music.
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Bud Scott's obituary ran on the front page of the Los Angeles Sentinel.