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sity of Michigan when he
met Brian Krinek, a sax-
ophonist. For a school pro-
ject, the two decided to form
a musical group — which
would become the Brian
Krinek Band. They
recruited bassist Jon Green
and percussionist Pieter
Struyk and began playing
throughout Ann Arbor.
After graduating, the four
decided to stick together and
quickly found work perform-
ing at leading local jazz
clubs and throughout the
Midwest. The band appears
regularly at Alexander's in
downtown Detroit.
Scott also found more and
more work composing, which
he does on the piano.
Among his most recent
projects are part of a sound-
track for Rain Without
Thunder, a new movie starr-
ing Jeff Daniels, and the
music for a play, The
Dybbuk's Revenge.
Written by Jack LaZebnik
of Missouri, the play tells
the story of a rejected lover
and the young bride he is
forbidden to wed. Scott spent
two months rewriting the
original score for the play,
which was eventually
scrapped. He spent another
three months composing his
own music and two more
months rewriting it, then
abandoned that score and
came up with something
completely different, a
klezmer sound featuring a
fiddle and clarinet.
Composers, he says of the
frequent rewritings, are
never satisfied. "Like John
Lennon said, there isn't
anything I wouldn't have

changed. I never just listen
to my music. I'm always
thinking about what I could
have done differently."
When not writing music
for movies or plays or ap-
pearing with the Brian
Krinek Band, Scott has
spent much of his time at
Temple Israel, where he and
his family are members and
where Scott has played
organ and piano. He credits
the temple's cantor, Harold
Orbach, with helping him
get his start.
"There was nothing I
wrote he wouldn't perform,"
he says.
Scott's latest project at
Temple Israel is setting
music to a series of chil-
dren's tales. One of his fav-
orites is "Talking to God,"
the story of a boy who
couldn't learn his prayers.
Then one day he finds a reed
and creates a beautiful
sound. On Yom Kippur, the
boy unable to pray takes out
his reed and begins to play.
Congregants are upset, but
the rabbi tells them not to
protest. "Because of the
beauty of this reed," he an-
nounces, "God hears all our
prayers."
It was Norton Stern who
decided Scott should channel
his talents into a demonstra-
tion tape. "I told him to put
together some pop stuff, and
he did, and he loved it," Nor-
ton says.
The result is a tape of 12
songs with Scott singing and
playing the piano. And this
is just the barest bones of
what the Sterns hope will
one day be a full-fledged
album.
Initially, Brian and Nor-