Ovation! Management Duo Simpatico

Jack, I listened to your recording and loved it. - Sir James Galway

Duo Simpatico, with Jack Scott on the flute and Steve Ramsdell on guitar, perform classical jazz. Both have performed individually with jazz bands as well as smaller groups in Chicago. They recently made the decision to collaborate, made a CD, and asked Ovation!Management to represent them. Their arrangements of jazz and 'pop' music are exciting and original. Trained as classical musicians they are adept at playing that genre but their 'true love' belongs to jazz.

Jack Scott– flute and alto flute. Jack has played all sorts of duo, trio and quartet jazz jobs in and around Chicago since the early‘80s with guitarists such as Fareed Haque and Jeff Kust. Finding the jobbing business on flute to be a bit of an uphill grind, he decided to put this duo project together, with the aim of having an act which can work in jazz clubs or a concert setting, as well as other possibilities. He is an avid fan of the alto flute, and uses it extensively in jazz, especially on the Brazilian pieces where it is particularly effective. He is also a freelance calligrapher and a well-known archaeological illustrator…and he plays the lute. He holds a bachelors degree in philosophy and anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He comes from a family of musicians and has studied music privately.

Guitarist Steve Ramsdell has been based in Chicago for over a decade performing in a variety of musical idioms. Original music as a leader, jazz classics with Spider Saloff, world music with Matt Geraghty and solo classical performances mark some of Steve’s musical explorations. Recent highlights include performances at the Iridium in New York, Jazz at Pearl’s in San Francisco and Ondojazz in Lisbon. Steve’s musical arrangements can be heard on Spider Saloff’s CD Like Glass while original compositions appear on the self released CD Steve Ramsdell Group. Holding a masters degree in jazz pedagogy and a bachelors degree in guitar performance from Northwestern University, Steve also teaches at The College of Dupage and Wheaton College.

Duo Simpatico
Jack Scott, Flute - Steve Ramsdell, Guitar

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