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Upon leaving The University of North Texas after only two
short years in the spring of 1994, Cameron Scott relocated to Brenham, TX,
where he began to further his education in a different kind of classroom.
That summer, he joined Brenham guitarists Sam Murski and Neil Kulhanek in
a group that would eventually come to be known as The Fire Ants. Two years
later, he journeyed to Orlando, Florida, to "see a bit more of the world".
While there, he became a member of local favorites Southside Jamz and continued
to perfect his skills as a saxophonist.
Texas was always home, though, and in the summer of 1996, he returned to Brenham
and to a new version of The Fire Ants. The following year would bring a chance
for Cameron to move to Houston in the fall of 1997, where he began frequenting
the town's Blues Jams and open mic nights at places like Billy Blues, The Big
Easy, and Dan Electro's. During this time, an old friend from Carmine, TX,
Virgil Brawley of the Mississippi-based blues band, The Juvenators, would put
in a good word for Cameron to become the saxophonist for another group, The
Brad McCool Band. For the next three years, he would pull double-duty with
The Fire Ants as well as The Brad McCool Band, and eventually The Shape Shifters,
as he broadened his sphere of venues to include Sambuca Jazz Cafe in Downtown
Houston.
After leaving The Fire Ants in 2000, Cameron refocused his energies into the
Houston Music Scene and soon began playing with "any and everyone".
Since that time, he has performed in a variety of settings, including The Houston
International Festival and has worked his way up the list of first-call saxophonists
in Houston, calling Toast and Jam "home".
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