Scott Healy is a professional with a real resume and a real “career,” for lack of a better term. That aside, he is a creative and original voice in a world that is largely hidden to the masses, and is more magical than most would ever imagine. – Tim Reid, Music Connection
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Scott Healy is a Grammy-nominated composer, producer, pianist, and multi-keyboardist based in Los Angeles. Best known for his longtime role in the house band for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show, and Conan on TBS, he continues to perform regularly on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast and recently appeared at the 2025 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring O’Brien broadcast on Netflix.
Healy’s 2013 Hudson City Suite, recorded by the 10-piece Scott Healy Ensemble, earned a 2014 Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition. He has performed and recorded with artists across genres including Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Al Green, Robert Cray, Keb’ Mo’, Heart, Michael Bublé, B.B. King, John Prine, and Tony Bennett. As an arranger, he wrote the big band chart for Ricky Martin’s hit “She Bangs.”
A respected session musician, Healy has worked extensively in film, television, and live performance on piano, organ, electronic keyboards, and accordion. His production credits span from electronica to jazz trio, big band, and quintet, and include projects under his own Hudson City Records label.
View Scott's Film and TV credits on his IMDB page.
Healy is also active as an educator, author, and theorist. A former Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College, he’s written for Keyboard Magazine, hosts the Ellington Study Group Los Angeles, and runs the advanced jazz theory Substack Quantum Harmony. He sits on the board of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC).
He studied classical piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music and holds a composition degree from the Eastman School of Music, where his teachers included Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Rayburn Wright.
