Inspired by the work of Walter Inglis Anderson, this piece has been played in New England, Scandinavia (Aland Jazz Fest) and other Jazz festivals.  This live recording from a concert at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston features Bob Patton on tenor sax and Scott Free (from Long Beach, MS) on guitar.

Walter Anderson's Secret Room

Scott Free is a Professor of Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He was born in New Orleans, LA. Mr. Free studied music at the University of Southern Mississippi and toured with the USM jazz lab band. In 1972 he came to Boston to study and earned a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition from Berklee, joining the faculty in 1975. In 1982 he completed a Master of Music Degree in Jazz Studies at New England Conservatory with honors. He has studied composition with George Russell, Mike Gibbs, Herb Pomeroy, W. Thomas McKinley, Gerald O'Neil and Hugo Norden. His private lessons on jazz guitar began with Jack Edwards. While in Boston he was fortunate to study with Mick Goodrick and Pat Metheny.

Free has played guitar in Berklee faculty big bands since 1988 and is a featured composer in the Faculty Concert Series. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by well known musicians such as Joe Hunt, George Garzone, Phil Wilson, and Walter Beasley to mention a few. Free’s works have been performed at colleges including M.I.T., Brown University, Princeton University, Providence College, and Harvard University as well as at jazz festivals in Europe, Japan, Scandinavia, New England, and the southern U.S. 

Scott Free has performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, in the southern U. S. and throughout the New England area with groups that have included Tony Award winning singer James Naughton, saxophonist Tim Ries, bassist Steve Laspina, sax/clarinetist John LaPorta, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, drummer Yoron Israel, and many others. His arrangements have appeared in textbooks and have been performed by bands from Vermont to Louisiana, from California to New York as well as Europe to Japan. Recordings of his guitar performance and compositions have been aired on N.P.R. and other radio stations in Boston, Providence, and New York City. He endorses Buscarino Guitars and Evans Custom Amplifiers.

Mr. Free is a member of ASCAP, IAJE (artist outreach) and Pi Kappa Lambda honors society. As a guest clinician/lecturer/adjudicator he has appeared at jazz festivals or music conventions in Italy (Umbria), Finland, at Boston’s Symphony Hall (Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra), at I.C.O.M. in Kuala Lumpur, as well as Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mississippi, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. He has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the Ted Pease award at Berklee for his contribution to the improvement of teaching. His former students hold important posts in Japan, Scandinavia, Korea, Europe, Malaysia, Canada, and the U.S.

C. Scott Free