Scott Walton


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Scott Walton has performed with George Lewis, Wadada Leo Smith, John Carter, Vinny Golia, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Quincy Troupe, Ray Anderson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Clifford Jordan, and Al Cohn, among others. He has collaborated with poets, dancers, performance artists, and filmmakers. Current projects as a bassist in addition to Cosmologic include the Vinny Golia Quintet, the Rain Trio (with Alex Cline and Eric Barber), and ongoing work with Harris Eisenstadt, Erik Griswold, and Jason Stanyek. As a pianist he has commissioned and premiered works by numerous composers (David Lipten, most recently), has toured with the Octagon Ensemble, and has collaborated in interactive computer and multimedia performances with Vibeke Sorenson and Harry Castle. He is currently performing music of Henry Cowell, and an improvised interpretation of Charles Ives' Concord Sonata. Walton is featured on recent CD releases by the Vinny Golia Quintet (One, Three, Two), O'Keefe, Stanyek, Walton, Whitehead (Tunnel), Nathan Hubbard (Skeleton Key Orchestra), Jeff Kaiser (17 Themes for Ockodektet), Chris Chafe (Arcology), and Anthony Davis (Tania). He has recorded on the Soul Note, Nine Winds, JazzHalo, Circumvention, pfMentum, Koch, Innova, Centaur, Albany, and Revelation labels. He is a member of the San Diego based Trummerflora Collective.

ALBUMS


D. Maroney* - D. Fournier* - S. Walton*
O Ko𝝇mo𝝇 Meta
2022, CD, Album, Rogueart
Alex Cline, Dan Clucas, Peter Kuhn, Dave Sewelson, Scott Walton
Dependent Origination
2018, CD, Album, FMR Records (2)
Tim Perkis • Scott Walton
Applied Cryptography
2016, CD, Album, pfMENTUM, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
Gilbert Isbin & Scott Walton
Recall
2012, CD, Album, pfMENTUM
Isbin* / Gauthier* / Walton*
Venice Suite
2006, CD, Album, Jazz'Halo, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Pat O'Keefe* / Jason Stanyek / Scott Walton / Glen Whitehead
Tunnel
2003, CD, Album, Circumvention Music
Pat O'Keefe* / Jason Stanyek / Scott Walton / Glen Whitehead
Unbalancing Act
CD, Album, Nine Winds Records, ,
Free Improvisation
Larry Ochs / Aram Shelton Quartet
Continental Drift
2020, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Glen Whitehead Trio
The Living Daylights
2018, CD, Album, pfMENTUM
Steve Adams / Scott Walton Duo
Cookies For Cyrano
2016, CD, Album, pfMENTUM, pfMENTUM
Rova::Orkestrova
No Favorites! (For Lawrence "Butch" Morris)
2016, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
Nathan Hubbard / Skeleton Key Orchestra*
Furiously Dreaming
2016, 2xCD, Album, Orenda Records, Orenda Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Cosmologic
Eyes In The Back Of My Head
2008, CD, Album, Cuneiform Records
Cosmologic
III
2005, CD, Album, Circumvention Music, Trummerflora
The Vinny Golia Quintet
One, Three, Two
2004, 2xCD, Album, Jazz'Halo
The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet
17 Themes For Ockodektet
2002, CD, Album, pfMENTUM
Cosmologic
Syntaxis
2002, CD, Album, Circumvention Music
Cosmologic
Staring At The Sun
2000, CD, Album, Circumvention Music

APPEARANCES +


Denman Maroney Quintet
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
2024, 2xCD, Album, Neuma Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Rob Youngblood
Things You'll Never Know
2024, CD, EP, Snailworx
Denman Maroney
Covid Variations
2021, 10xFile, FLAC, Album, Not On Label, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Kyle Bruckmann's Degradient
Dear Everyone
2017, 2xCD, Album, Not Two Records
Alex Cline's Flower Garland Orchestra
Oceans Of Vows
2017
Nathan Hubbard
Encinitas And Everything After - Volume One
2014, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Castor & Pollux Music, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Experimental
Nathan Hubbard
Encinitas And Everything After - Volume Two
2014, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Castor & Pollux Music, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Experimental
Gunther’s Grass
Never In The Future That Dawned Earlier On
2013, 6xFile, MP3, Album, 320, Titicacaman Records, ,
Free Improvisation
Tone Bent
Angels In The Kitchen
2011, CD, Album, Big Door Prize Records
Alex Cline
Continuation
2008
Harris Eisenstadt
The All Seeing Eye + Octets
2007, CD, Album, Poo-Bah Records
Derek Keller
Impositions And Consequences
2007, CD, Album, Tzadik
UC San Diego Music
Sound Check Two
2007, CD, Album, UC San Diego Department of Music
Jason Robinson
Fingerprint
2007, CD, Album, Circumvention Music
Nathan Hubbard
(Compositions 1998-2005)
2006, 2xCD, Album, Circumvention Music
David Borgo
Ubuntu
2005, CD, Album, Cadence Jazz Records
Trummerflora*
Rubble 1
2004, CD, Comp, Accretions Records, Circumvention Music, ,
Modern Classical/Free Improvisation/Abstract/Tribal/Experimental
Mark Applebaum
Martian Anthropology
2004, CD, Album, Innova Recordings
Ellen Weller
Spirits, Little Dreams, And Improvisations
2004, CD, Album, Circumvention Music
Various
An All Star Lineup Performing The Songs Of Pink Floyd
2004
Nathan Hubbard
Skeleton Key Orchestra
2003, 2xCD, Album, Circumvention Music
UCSD Department of Music
Compilation CD 1996–2000
2002, 2xCD, University Of California, San Diego, ,
Contemporary/Modern/Musique Concrète/Hard Bop
Anthony Davis (2) - Michael John LaChiusa, Cynthia Aaronson-Davis, Avery Brooks (2), Thomas Young (3), Episteme, Rand Steiger
Tania
2001, 2xCD, Album, Koch International Classics, Koch International Classics, ,
Contemporary/Opera
Bertram Turetzky
Tenors, Echoes, And Wolves
1998, CD, Album, Nine Winds Records
Bobby Bradford With The Frank Sullivan Trio
Live - One Night Stand
1988
Jerry Coker , Recorded In Concert With The Frank Sullivan Trio
. . . A Re-emergence
1984, LP, Album, Revelation Records (3)
Carmell Jones
Returns
1983, LP, Album, Revelation Records (3),
Various
An All Star Lineup Performing The Songs Of Pink Floyd
DVD, Comp, Purple Pyramid Records, ,
Prog Rock
Trummerflora*
Rubble 2
2006, CD, Comp, Accretions Records