"If Scott Amendola didn't exist the San Francisco music scene would have to invent him." Derk Richards, SF Bay Guardian

Scott Amendola landed in San Francisco in 1992 after graduating from Berklee College of Music. He met guitarist Charlie Hunter soon after arriving in San Francisco. The two joined forces along with Will Bernard and John Schott to form the innovative band TJ Kirk (Warner Bros.). TJ Kirk went on to be nominated for a Grammy in 1995. A year and a half later, Scott joined the Charlie Hunter Quartet. The band toured worldwide and recorded three records for Blue Note. "Amendola has complete mastery of every piece of his drumset and the ability to create a plethora of sounds using sticks, brushes, mallets, and even his hands," explains Steven Raphael of Modern Drummer magazine. "There is a phenomenal interaction of five distinct musical voices. Amendola and his hand-picked crew take improvisation to new heights." For Amendola "it’s all about improvisation and opening up the music so that anything can happen."

In addition to his own new release, some other recent recordings that Scott can be heard on are: Jenny Scheinman Quartet "Live at Yoshi's" (tzadik), The Tony Furtado Band (Cojema), Jim Campilong's "LIVE at the Du Nord" (Ethic), Noe Venable's "No Curses Here" (Intuition), Paul Sprawl's "Blue Suitcase" (Intuition), Paul Plimley's "Safe Crackers" (Victo). Over the past nine years Scott has toured, recorded, or performed with Bill Frisell, Dave Liebman, John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Liebman, Jacky Terrasson, Shweta Jhaveri, Robin Holcomb and the Joe Goode Dance Group, Wayne Horvitz, Johnny Griffin, Viktor Krauss, Paul Plimley, Tony Furtado, Jack Walrath, Julian Priester, Sonny Simmons, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Pat Martino, Larry Ochs, Nels Cline, Peter Apfelbaum, Jim Campilongo, Bobby Black, Paul McCandless, Ben Goldberg, Mark Turner, Michael Franti, Primus, Nina Hagen, Phil Lesh, and others, and has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, and Australia.