Winner of OffBeat Magazine 's 2009 Best of the Beat Award for "Best Contemporary Jazz Record," Cindy Scott is an accomplished vocalist, bandleader, composer and arranger. Scott has walked a different path than most jazz singers, though. She has a Masters in International Business, speaks German and Spanish, and spent several years living and working in Europe and Central America. Also a Masters of Jazz Studies holder from the University of New Orleans, she has been a full time professor of Voice at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music and has found a happy marriage between her straight-ahead roots and the musical gumbo that pervades New Orleans, her now longtime home. "Her voice moves seamlessly between influences, holding a masterfully controlled vibrato on one phrase before dipping into a bluesy purr on the next." ~ Jennifer O'Dell, Downbeat Magazine "She has the serious jazz chops that enable her to improvise on a dime on whatever chord changes are thrown her way… the highest praise of all, she really doesn't sound like anyone else." ~ Tom McDermott, Offbeat Magazine