Elliot Scozzaro Quintet Plays the Music of Cannonball Adderley

Join the Elliot Scozzaro Quintet as perform music made famous by the great Julian “Cannonball” Adderley! Compositions will be selected from iconic albums such as “The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco,” “Them Dirty Blues,” “Cannonball’s Bossa Nova,” and more.

Elliot maintains a busy freelance schedule as a leader and a sideman. He has extensively toured throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Al Stewart and the Empty Pockets, and Louis Prima Jr and the Witnesses. Elliot has also played at venues both in the Western New York area and throughout the Northeast and Midwest with such artists as the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Father John Misty, Bright Eyes, and Debby Boone.

An active composer, Elliot has written compositions and arrangements for both small and large ensembles. In 2019, he was commissioned to write an arrangement of Brad Leali’s “Carla Ann” for a performance with the U.S. Navy Commodores at the 2020 International Saxophone Symposium in Washington D.C. In 2022, he was awarded a Statewide Community Regrant by Arts Services Inc. and the New York State Council on the Arts for the premiere of his project “Sounds of Buffalo: A Series of Compositions and Arrangements for Tentet.” He recently debuted an arrangement of “Just Friends” with the Glenn Miller Orchestra while on tour in Summer 2025.

Elliot is currently on faculty at Buffalo State University and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia. Elliot also serves as the Program Coordinator for the Buffalo Jazz Collective, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and advancing the rich jazz heritage of Western New York.