Jazz Ensemble Director - Adjunct Music Faculty

Scott Black is a professional jazz bassist and jazz historian. He has lived in Tucson since 2002 and quickly became one of our busiest jazz musicians and co-founded the nationally acclaimed, multi- award winning Tucson Jazz Institute – a world-class jazz music school producing the finest future jazz stars. After graduating from Indiana University, he worked in NYC for 6 years and then moved to Chicago which became his home for 20 years until the Tucson sunshine called out “Come, come.” His ownership and educational role in the Tucson Jazz Institute (TJI) has been transformative. TJI has become one of the most recognized and awarded jazz schools in the United States.