Lloyd Scott & His Orchestra

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Reedman Cecil Scott and his older brother Lloyd (born 8-21-1902), who played drums, came out of the relatively small community of Springfield, Ohio which proved to be a rich cradle for jazz musicians, producing the core of McKinney's Cotton Pickers and the Scott band which became Cecil Scott and his Bright Boys. The triangle of Springfield, Wilberforce and Xenia had a particularly strong black community because it housed one of the two pre-Civil War private black colleges, Wilberforce. The Scotts began their band in Springfield in the early 1920s to compete with Milt Senior's Synco Jazz Band which became McKinney's Cotton Pickers. In the early 1920s, Scott's Symphonic Syncopators, as their bass drum called them, included Gus McClung, trumpet; Earl Horne, trombone; Cecil Scott, reeds; Buddy Burton, violin; Don Frye, piano; Dave Wilborn, banjo and Lloyd Scott, drums. They played as far away as Pittsburg. In the mid Twenties they had a three months' summer gig at Hermit's End or Herman's Inn, 2493 Seventh Avenue, in Harlem. Their band was still a little small and young for the big city and they returned to Ohio. They added two excellent men: Dicky Wells, trombone from Louisville, Kentucky and Frankie Newton, trumpet from Huntington, West Virginia. As a ten piece group called Lloyd Scott's Symphonic Syncopators, they returned to Harlem and were quite successful, based for almost two years at the Capitol Palace, 575 Lenox Avenue. This was an after-hours club that stayed open wel

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