Tony Scott, born Anthony Joseph Sciacca on June 17, 1921 and died March 28, 2007. He was an American jazz clarinetist who also arranged music. His interest in folk music is well-known. Because of his involvement for decades in music related to Asian cultures and meditation, Scott was highly respected in New Age music circles throughout his entire career. Scott was born in Morristown, New Jersey. He attended Juilliard School between 1940 and 1942. He worked alongside Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and others in the 1950s. As a side-man, he also had Bill Evans in his youth. He won the Down Beat critics poll in the 1950s for clarinetist on four occasions, in 1955, 1957 and 1958. He was also known for his more “cool” style that Buddy DeFranco. He was still relatively unknown, as jazz clarinetists have been putting the clarinet in the shadows since the advent of bebop. He left New York City in 1959, where he was based, and he abandoned the United States. He toured South, East and Southeast Asia in the 1960s. He spent time in Japan and played in a Hindu temple. In 1964, he released Music for Zen Meditation for Verve Records. A Down Beat poll in Japan voted him the best clarinetist[6] and Buddy DeFranco was the winner. He did a Japanese special about Buddhism and Jazz in recent years, but he also continued working with American jazz musicians and performed at the Newport Jazz Festival 1965. He released his first album in eighteen years, Tony Scott: Homage to Lord Krishna, in 1967. He worked in Germany, Africa and sometimes in South America in the years that followed. In the 1970s, he settled in Italy and began to work with Italian jazz musicians like Romano Mussolini and Franco D’Andrea. Glauber Rocha also cast him as the Sicilian-American Mafia boss, Claro (1975). He began to take an interest in Electronica in his later years. In 2002, King Britt remixed Hare Krishna for Verve Remixed. Franco Maresco, an Italian filmmaker, released a documentary film about Tony Scott’s life entitled Io Sono Tony Scott. It was titled ovvero come Italy fece fumori il piu grand clarinettistadel jazz. The Story of how Italy got rid of the greatest jazz clarinetist. From Wikipedia
