Who says jazz musicians are always broke.
Scott Bradlee, who is keeping the Tin Pan Alley flame alive, now has his very own Encino home. The purchase price was $2.775 million.
The vintage of the property is certainly in keeping with Bradlee’s sensibilities; although, overall, it’s formality feels more like Stravinsky than Bix. In the great room, wood-paneled coffered ceilings soar over hardwood floors, while a second floor balustrade in the same mahogany tone looks on. A library and lounge features a wet bar, and vaulted ceiling with exposed beams, and that same wood tone is nearly omnipresent, a leitmotif of aristocratic suggestion. The dining room offers a bit of period-style floral wallpaper, tastefully understated, in more generally warm tones.
In the kitchen, things brighten up quite a bit—the ceiling is finished in white tile, and the room is poised on the border of California and Provence, with a slightly overblown, if charming, rustic appeal. The master suite features a fireplace in the bedroom, large walk-in closet with mosaic hardwood floor, and, as expected, large tile-and-marble bathroom. There are six bedrooms and six baths in the 6,500 square feet.
Outside, the pool-spa-outdoor lounge area, nicely rendered in brick, is pleasingly overgrown, giving the property a lush, slightly rococo feel. The house rests on about half an acre.
Scott Bradley is a gifted musician who was bitten by the jazz bug hard at an early age. After achieving considerable notoriety on the brutally competitive New York jazz scene, he worked in theater, before becoming interested in using jazz and soul tropes as methods of reinvigorating both jazz and contemporary popular musical forms, as well as his bank account.