[2]: 39 After the show's New York engagements, Scott joined the Clef Club, a musical society that included Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson.

At age 22 he was in the string section of the 125-piece Clef Club Orchestra when it performed a historic concert at Carnegie Hall May 2, 1912, under the direction of James Reese Europe.

"[2]: 39–40 Scott played on a number of Victor Talking Machine Company ragtime recordings with James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra in 1913.

"[1]: 412 [2]: 41  He also worked with Johnny Dodds and Jimmy Blythe, Erskine Tate, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers[2]: 40–41  and Richard M. Jones' Jazz Wizards.

[4] Scott was the first person to use a guitar in a modern dance orchestra, in Dave Peyton's group accompanying Ethel Waters at Chicago's Cafe de Paris.

"I joined Mutt Carey's band playing in clubs around Los Angeles", Scott told jazz historian Floyd Levin.

[2]: 41 In 1944 Scott joined an all-star traditional New Orleans band that was a leader of the West Coast revival, put together for the CBS Radio series The Orson Welles Almanac.

The All Star Jazz Group also included Mutt Carey, Ed Garland, Jimmie Noone (succeeded by Barney Bigard), Kid Ory, Zutty Singleton and Buster Wilson.

Performers included Danny Barker, Blue Lu Barker, Benny Carter, Pete Daily and the Chicagoans, Firehouse Five Plus Two, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, Nappy Lamare, Nellie Lutcher, Eddie Miller, Albert Nicholas, Zutty Singleton, Ted Vesley's Dixieland band and T-Bone Walker.

[2]: 42 "Kid Ory wept during prayers at Bud Scotts's Masonic funeral," wrote jazz historian Floyd Levin.