{"id":10073,"date":"2016-11-04T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palomarperforms.com\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:53:24","slug":"dr-scott-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/dr-scott-walton\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Scott Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-105674 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/walton-image-Edited-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Scott Walton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/walton-image-Edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/walton-image-Edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/walton-image-Edited.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><a href=\"mailto:swalton@palomar.edu\"><strong>Scott Walton<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a bassist and pianist whose music negotiates the terrain between jazz, free improvisation, and classical avant-garde. Praised for his \u201cdramatic\u201d soloing (<em>Downbeat<\/em>), \u201cgraceful fluidity\u201d (<em>All About Jazz<\/em>), and \u201cpropulsive energy\u201d (<em>OneFinalNote<\/em>), the <em>Downtown Music Gallery<\/em> proclaims that Walton \u201cconsistently shines.\u201d He has performed throughout North America and Europe in a host of collaborative contexts, and has recorded with Vinny Golia, Nels Cline, Myra Melford, and Bobby Bradford, among many others. Current projects include duos with Steve Adams, Tim Perkis, and Gilbert Isbin, the Michael Vllatkovich quartet, the Bill Horvitz Sextet, and Alex Cline\u2019s Flower Garland Orchestra. Walton holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and has designed courses and implemented online music instruction for universities and colleges in California and Colorado. He has served as an adjunct instructor for Palomar College since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Scott Walton<br \/>\nPart Time Faculty Music<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:scttwltn@gmail.com\">scttwltn@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\nswalton@palomar.edu<br \/>\n(760) 744-1150 ext 2316<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part Time Music Faculty <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/dr-scott-walton\/\">Continue Reading<span> Dr. Scott Walton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10754,"featured_media":105674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contact-list-music"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2025\/12\/walton-image-Edited.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:58:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106190,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions\/106190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/palomarperforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}