Biography
Scott Healy is a Los Angeles-based keyboardist and composer, best recognized as the keyboardist for Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band on Conan on TBS. His collaboration with Conan O'Brien dates back to the original Late Night with Conan O'Brien show and continued through the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. He is currently active on both coasts as a jazz and rock keyboardist, session pianist, organist, accordionist, composer, arranger, and producer. His performance and recording credits include notable artists in rock, blues, R&B, and jazz such as Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Al Green, B.B. King, Jackson Browne, Levon Helm, Son Seals, Hubert Sumlin, Max Weinberg, Branford Marsalis, and Tony Bennett. He is also involved in scoring feature films, producing records, and leading his ten-piece jazz ensemble, The Scott Healy Tentet. His composing and arranging work includes collaborations with the Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Mel Lewis Orchestra, as well as recording artists Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera. He has earned awards from BMI, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the "Distinguished Artist" award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He scored the New York City Torchlight award-winning film Digging for Dutch and has had numerous films showcased at major festivals nationwide.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and an alumnus of Hawken School, Healy graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a degree in composition and piano. During his studies, he worked with Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Rayburn Wright, and Warren Benson.
His monthly column, "Session Sensei," appeared in Keyboard Magazine for over five years, offering practical advice on performing, studio work, the music industry, and professional life. He also authored numerous feature articles on artists and bands, along with lessons on rock, jazz, and blues piano and organ for Keyboard. In the 1980s, he taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City and served as an Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, from 1990 to 2001.
