Kendrick Scott

Kendrick Scott is a drummer, composer, and bandleader known for a lyrical, texturally rich approach to modern post-bop that draws on the lineage of Roy Haynes, Tony Williams, and Elvin Jones. Born in 1980 in Houston, he came up through the city's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and earned a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music, graduating in 2002. He leads the ensemble Kendrick Scott Oracle, which made its Blue Note debut with We Are the Drum in 2015 and followed with A Wall Becomes a Bridge in 2019, and he recorded the trio album Corridors in 2023 with Walter Smith III and Reuben Rogers. Scott has been a longtime member of Terence Blanchard's band and has toured and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Kurt Elling, among many others. He also serves on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.