Lew Scott is a bassist who has been performing in the New York area and throughout the country for many years, based in the Hudson Valley and long active in the jazz scenes of Kingston, Woodstock, Rhinebeck, and the greater Capital Region. A versatile and in-demand sideman, he is equally at home in straight-ahead jazz settings, vocal accompaniment, and Latin-influenced projects, and has become a familiar presence on local bandstands from The Falcon in Marlboro to the Wall Street Jazz Festival in Kingston.

Over the course of his career, Scott has performed with an impressive roster of notable musicians, including Clark Terry, Conte Candoli, Frank Rosolino, Joe Lovano, Herb Ellis, George Coleman, Dave Liebman, Jack Sheldon, Peggy Stern, and John Abercrombie, among many others. He has also toured with vocalists Melba Moore, Lainie Kazan, Nnenna Freelon, and Michael Amante, and has worked with singers such as Anita O’Day and Mark Murphy, making him a trusted presence on the bandstand for some of the most demanding voices in the music.

In addition to his work in jazz settings, Scott has accompanied classic pop and standards vocalists including Robert Goulet, Vic Damone, Sergio Franchi, Jerry Vale, Al Martino, Eddie Fisher, Florence Henderson, Julie Budd, and Lucie Arnaz, and has performed with groups including the Four Aces and the Fifth Dimension. That breadth of experience — from hard-swinging jazz trios to showroom revues to Latin and Brazilian dates — has made him one of the most dependable and stylistically adaptable bassists working in the region today, with a schedule that regularly includes the Peggy Stern Estrella Group, the John Esposito Trio, and a variety of guitar- and piano-led ensembles throughout the Hudson Valley and New York City.