Los Angeles-based Scott Healy is a Grammy-nominated composer, producer, pianist and multi-keyboardist who multitasks across the musical spectrum. He is best-known for playing in the house band for Conan O’Brien: first on Late Night in NYC, then moving out to LA in 2009 for The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, and now Conan on TBS, where he holds down the keyboard chair in the Basic Cable Band. He released Hudson City Suite, by the10-piece Scott Healy Ensemble, in 2013, to worldwide praise, stellar online and print reviews, national jazz radio airplay, and a 2014 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition. His recent CD, Live at Kilbourn Hall by Scott Healy with the Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble, was released in October, 2014.  Healy was featured on the cover of the February, 2015 issue of Keyboard Magazine, and he was also featured in an “Indie Life” article in the March, 2013 issue of Downbeat Magazine.

ASMAC Luncheon welcomes Scott Healy
Grammy-nominated composer,
producer, pianist and multi-keyboardist

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 – 11:30am

In addition to his composing, recording, and nightly TV gig, Healy works as a hired-gun on piano, organ, electronic keyboards and accordion for film and TV. He has recorded and performed with many of the greats in rock, blues, R&B and jazz: Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Al Green, BB King, Jackson Browne, Levon Helm, Son Seals, Hubert Sumlin and Tony Bennett, among others. He has worked as an arranger for major label releases, including scoring the big band arrangement for the 2001 Ricky Martin hit “She Bangs”.

Healy’s work reflects his classical piano, composition, conducting and orchestration training, as well as his years in the studio and on the stage, whether it be on the podium, in the band or behind the glass. Other composing, arranging and scoring credits include the Portland Symphony, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Mel Lewis Orchestra, Christina Aguilera, and music for film and TV. He he recently received a commission for a extended jazz work from the Chelsea Music Festival, to be premiered by his ensemble in NYC at the festival’s closing concert in June, 2016.

Record producing credits include albums by his own groups—the Scott Healy Ensemble, NYC electronica supergroup The Coalition, jazz piano trio, big band and quintet music.

Healy is a contributing editor to Keyboard Magazine, where he wrote a long-running advice column, “Session Sensei,” and to which he continues to contribute feature articles and lessons. His blog, ProfessorScoSco, explores various aspects of composing, listening, and arranging. He organized and leads the ongoing Ellington Study Group Los Angeles, an informal workshop in jazz composition and theory. He has taught master classes and seminars at Eastman School of Music, Brown University and Boston University. In addition to the Grammy nomination, he has received awards from BMI, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the “Distinguished Artist” award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Join us for an entertaining and informative luncheon with one of the busiest musicians around!