Jay Scott (saxophonist)

Jay Carrington Scott (1953–2009) was a saxophone player whose solos were featured on many gold and platinum records of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was born on March 13, 1952, in Durham, North Carolina, and in 1958, the family moved to East Point, Georgia, where his father worked a government job and moonlighted as an upright bass player. Scott's father honed in on Scott’s innate musical talent and ended up buying him a Music Minus One program for the saxophone. At nine years of age, Scott started playing saxophone.