Raymond Scott
USA
Born: 10 September 1908
Died: 08 February 1994
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80
Genres: Jazz, Pop/Rock, Easy Listening, Stage & Screen, Avant-Garde
Styles: Experimental Electronic, Modern Composition, Swing, Big Band/Swing, Space Age Pop, Exotica/Lounge, Computer Music, Obscuro, Psychedelic, Psychedelic/Garage, Soundtracks, Film Music, Cartoon Music, Television Music, TV Music
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Composer, bandleader, and inventor Raymond Scott was among the unheralded pioneers of contemporary experimental music, a figure whose genius and influence have seeped almost subliminally into the mass cultural consciousness. As a visionary whose name is largely unknown but whose music is immediately recognizable, Scott's was a career stuffed with contradictions: though his early work anticipated the breathless invention of bebop, his obsession with perfectionism and memorization was the very antithesis of jazz's improvisational ethos; though hi...
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