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Tee Scott

Pioneering garage DJ associated with Better Days

Resident DJ1970s–1980s1 room · 12 connected figures

Biography

Tee Scott is often cited as a pioneering New York garage DJ, associated with a long residency at Better Days and frequently named within the soulful, gospel-inflected lineage that shaped the city's dance sound. Documentation is limited and more is needed.

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Tee Scott is remembered as an early architect of the soulful, gospel-inflected garage sound, with a long Better Days residency; documentation is limited, and more is needed.

Oral histories & archival media

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Better Days, in your words

Documentation of Better Days is thin. We're seeking oral histories of its Black queer dancefloor and its DJs.

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Rooms they shaped

Better Days

1972–1990 · Hell's Kitchen / Midtown West, Manhattan

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Resident DJ, Born Marc Allen Scott, Bronx, September 17, 1948; died December 12, 1995. Resident c.1972–c.1980. Wired the club's lights and early sound system himself; pioneered three-turntable technique; gave Frankie Knuckles his first professional DJ slots (Mondays/Tuesdays). Inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame, 2004.

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David Morales1 shared

François Kevorkian1 shared

Frankie Knuckles1 shared

DJ whose early career is tied to New York before Chicago

Kenny Carpenter1 shared

Robert Clivillés1 shared

Shep Pettibone1 shared

Timmy Regisford1 shared

Resident DJ of the long-running Shelter party

Tony Humphries1 shared