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Timeline
13 events▣ Album 11◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1950s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Magic Eye
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
2010s
· Album
Album: Monk’s Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk
Album
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2020s
Biography
English biography332 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1374155242
Biography
Scott Robinson (born April 27, 1959) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. Robinson is best known for his work on multiple saxophones, but he has also performed on clarinet, alto clarinet, flute, trumpet, sarrusophone, and other, more obscure instruments.
Music career
The son of a piano teacher and National Geographic book editor, Robinson graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1981. The next year, he joined the college's staff, becoming its youngest faculty member.
Robinson has appeared on more than 275 LP and CD releases, including 20 under his leadership, with musicians Frank Wess, Roscoe Mitchell, Ruby Braff, Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, Paquito D'Rivera, David Bowie, Maria Schneider, Rufus Reid, Buck Clayton, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Four of these recordings won a Grammy Award. He has received four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The U.S. State Department named him a jazz ambassador for the year 2001, funding a tour of West Africa in which he played the early works of Louis Armstrong. Material from these appearances was released on the album Jazz Ambassador: Scott Robinson Plays the Compositions of Louis Armstrong by Arbors Records.
Throughout his career, Robinson has worked to keep unusual and obscure instruments in the public view. For example, he has recorded an album featuring the C melody saxophone and performs with the ophicleide. He also owns and records with a vintage contrabass saxophone so rare that fewer than twenty in playable condition are known to exist.
Since 2009, he has operated his own record label, ScienSonic Laboratories.
He is not to be confused with the percussionist N. Scott Robinson.
As leader/co-leader
Multiple Instruments (Multijazz, 1984)
Winds of Change (Multijazz, 1990)
Magic Eye (Bliss, 1993)
Thinking Big (Arbors, 1997)
Melody from the Sky (Arbors, 2000)
Summertime (Cube Bohemia, 2004)
Jazz Ambassador (Arbors, 2004)
Forever Lasting (Arbors, 2008)
Live at Space Farms (ScienSonic, 2010)
Nucleus (ScienSonic, 2010)
Bronze Nemesis (Doc-tone/ScienSonic, 2012)
Mission In Space (ScienSonic, 2014)
? (ScienSonic, 2015)
Heliosonic Toneways (ScienSonic, 2017)
Tenormore (Arbors, 2019)
Flow States (ScienSonic, 2020)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 12 | 83.4th |
| Studio albums | 11 | 91.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 13 | 89.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 28 | 62th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (12 release groups · 11 studio albums)
Albums · 11
1993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:00:35
1The Mighty Ones4:242Emil6:103Fanòshu5:044Malá Strana6:185Inevitable5:256Walkin' in San Francisco6:257Dr. Pivo4:178Who's Got the Blues?6:489Highest Flights4:3110Magic Eye5:3411Porthcawl5:392000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 56:58
1Air9:40272711:263Nightscape7:124The Spins8:515Quiet as It's Kept11:296Over8:202000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:11:26
1Davenport Blues5:462Where Is Love?3:453Just Like A Melody Out Of The Sky2:594Isfahan4:495Yardville6:356I'm Making Believe3:357Saxophone Blues8:278This Is No Laughing Matter3:429Sweet Rhythm4:2610The Swan (Le Cygne)2:3611Ups And Downs5:3412Count Your Blessing (Instead Of Sheep)3:5413For No Reason At All In C3:3214Singin' the Blues2:3715C Here4:4216A Melody From The Sky4:272005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 41:04
1Theme from Schindler's List4:502Yerushalaim Shel Zahav3:523Remembrances5:004Perec - Impression of Schindler's List4:015Jewish Town5:356Litany - Impression of Schindler's List8:447Theme from Schindler's List4:458Oyfn Pripet Shok and Nacht Action4:172010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 58:18
1Norwegian Invention, Part I7:502Norwegian Invention, Part II6:173Norwegian Invention, Part III12:154Norwegian Invention, Part IV8:535Norwegian Invention, Part V6:436Norwegian Invention, Part VI2:277Norwegian Invention, Part VII4:018Norwegian Invention, Part VIII9:522011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:03:43
1Love Me or Leave Me4:422Ephemera4:503Bossa Nouveau3:424Civilization and Its Discontents4:385Elevation4:176What's New4:347Motel7:428Claudette's Way7:559Baritone Rhapsody7:0310Sophisticated Lady6:4111Blues Peleón6:3412Serge's Urge0:4713Two Tones0:182012 · studio album
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1Man of Bronze4:012The Secret in the Sky4:253He Could Stop the World1:404Fortress of Solitude8:295Mad Eyes6:596The Metal Master10:517The Golden Man1:318Land of Always-Night4:369The Living Fire1:0910The Man Who Shook the Earth6:0111Weird Valley5:2612The Mental Wizard7:332014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 58:25
1Tone Venture #10:382Tone Venture #2A3:413Tone Venture #10A7:014Tone Venture #161:075Tone Venture #85:246Tone Venture #11B2:507Tone Venture #3B2:318Tone Venture #11C2:139Tone Venture #12B6:3810Tone Venture #11D1:4711Tone Venture #63:5212Tone Venture #11E5:2213Tone Venture #138:0614Tone Venture #147:15Monk’s Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk
2018 · studio album
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:08:44
1Vortex State15:192Dream State10:503Transition State7:584Steady State5:565Plasma State6:266Altered State6:207Variable State6:148Flow State9:41My Astorian Queen – 25 years on the New York Jazz scene
2021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 53:27
1Mean What You Say7:362Solitude5:303Broadway6:074Peace Waltz7:355È Preciso Perduar5:036Out in P.A.7:587My Astorian Queen5:308There’s a Boat That’s Leaving Soon for New York4:569New York, New York3:12
Album · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Live at Space FarmsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks · 1:50:27Disc 1 1Live at Space Farm1:00:32 Disc 22Space Corridor #11:18 3Soundings 1 & 27:14 4Lattice2:58 5Spaceton Monolith0:37 6Synchronous Orbits1:35 7Space Corridor #21:15 8Fred Space Interview #12:20 9SF Experience8:23 10The Ghost of Old Bill Black4:04 11Spacescape0:59 12Lattice #21:19 13Soundings 34:15 14Fred Space Interview #23:08 15The Bell Tower1:44 16Space Farms... Space Is the Place4:03 17The Bells of Space Farms4:43 | Live | 2010 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Scott Robinson head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 12 | 83.4th |
| Studio albums | 11 | 91.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 13 | 89.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 28 | 62th |
| Genres | 4 | 84.7th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Schneider Orchestra(band) | — | present | theremin |
| Maria Schneider Orchestra(band) | — | present | clarinet |
| Maria Schneider Orchestra(band) | — | present | bass clarinet |
| Maria Schneider Orchestra(band) | — | present | flute |
| Maria Schneider Orchestra(band) | — | present | baritone saxophone |
| The Keith Ingham Sextet(band) | — | present | |
| Mike LeDonne's Big Band(band) | — | present |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott-robinson_DSC08861.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c9297512-84b2-4662-bc1c-075c77e43e55discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c9297512-84b2-4662-bc1c-075c77e43e55core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1421176genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1421176seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Robinson_%28jazz_musician%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Robinson_%28jazz_musician%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of jazz musicians
Tier rule: genre canon: jazz
Image: Hreinn Gudlaugsson · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q1421176 · MusicBrainz: c9297512-84b2-4662-bc1c-075c77e43e55
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