Scott Amendola (born February 6, 1969) is an American drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. His styles include jazz, blues, groove, and rock.^[1][2]

Amendola is originally from New Jersey and studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston.^[3] After relocating to California, he rose to popularity in the 1990s as a member of the band T.J. Kirk with Charlie Hunter, Will Bernard, and John Schott. Their second album, If Four Was One, received a Grammy Award nomination.^[4] Amendola has led his own bands and trios, which have included musicians such as Nels Cline, Jenny Scheinman, Jeff Parker, John Shifflett,^[5] Ben Goldberg, and Devin Hoff.^[1] He has recorded with Pat Martino, Jim Campilongo, G.E. Stinson, and Tony Furtado, among others. He is an original member of the Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core and has been a session percussionist for Cris Williamson, Noe Venable, Carla Bozulich, and Odessa Chen, to name a few.^[6]

In 2011, Amendola premiered his orchestral work Fade to Orange, performed in conjunction with the Oakland East Bay Symphony as one of their New Visions/New Vistas premieres. The drummer was joined by Nels Cline and Trevor Dunn.^[7]

with T.J. Kirk

• T.J. Kirk (1995)
• If Four Was One (1996)
• Talking Only Makes It Worse (2003)

with Phillip Greenlief/Scott Amendola Duo

• Collect My Thoughts (1995)

with Pat Martino

• All Sides Now (1997)

with Scott Amendola Band

• Scott Amendola Band (1999)
• Cry (2003)
• Believe (2005)
• Lift (2010)
• Fade to Orange (2015)

with The Nels Cline Singers

• Instrumentals (2000)
• The Giant Pin (2004)
• Draw Breath (2007)
• The Celestial Septet (2010) with Rova Saxophone Quartet
• Initiate (2010)
• Macroscope (2014)

with L. Stinkbug – Nels Cline, G.E. Stinson, Steuart Liebig, Scott Amendola

• The Allure of Roadside Curious (2002)

with Red Pocket – Jewlia Eisenberg, Marika Hughes, Scott Amendola

• Thick (2004)

with Nels Cline

• New Monastery (2006)
• Dirty Baby (2010)

with Plays Monk – Ben Goldberg, Devin Hoff, Scott Amendola

• Plays Monk (2007)

with Bill Frisell

• All Hat (2008)

with Ben Goldberg, Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles

• Go Home (2009)

with Charlie Hunter

• Not Getting Behind Is the New Getting Ahead (2012)
• Pucker (2013)
• Cars/Williams/Porter/Ellington (2014)

with John Dietrich, Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola

• Short Sighted Dream Colossus (2012)

with Henry Kaiser/Scott Amendola

• Leaps (2015)

with Amendola vs. Blades

• Greatest Hits (2016)

with Invisible Bird – Dave Devine, Shane Endsley, Scott Amendola

• Flutter to Fuzz (2018)