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Announcing! Will Scruggs - Bluebari Jam CD Release
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Click here to purchase the latest release from Will Scruggs, Bluebari Jam.
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| Jazz Fellowship - Track Listing |
| 01. Anthesis | 6:02 | W. Scruggs |
| 02. The Voice | 8:35 | W. Scruggs |
| 03. High Road | 6:12 | W. Scruggs |
| 04. Beersheba | 3:47 | G. Kurz/W. Scruggs |
| 05. Blue in Green | 5.22 | Bill Evans |
| 06. O Lamb | 3.57 | Adapted by W. Scruggs |
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Event News Journal:
2008-12-10 @ 9:45pm
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Will Scruggs is now a JUPITER Artist :|: [Posted by Willis] |
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Will Scruggs, along with fellow FUNDERHORNS Ken Watters and Wes Funderburk, is now a JUPITER Artist. Will is playing a new Jupiter XO Tenor Saxophone and is available for clinics and performances with sponsorship and support from Jupiter. For more information, please visit www.jupitermusic.com. |
2007-06-20 @ 5:14am
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BlueBari Jam on Summit Records :|: [Posted by Willis] |
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BlueBari Jam, the newest album from the Will Scruggs Jazz Fellowship, is officially set for release on Summit Records on October 9th, 2007. Thanks to Summit, BlueBari Jam will be available at record stores nation-wide with a major radio push to coincide with the release. The full length album features Brian Hogans on piano, Zack Pride on bass, and Marlon Patton on drums, plus special guests Wes Funderburk, Chris Duarte, and Sid Wolf. There will be an official CD release party at Churchill Grounds in Atlanta on Saturday, October 6th. Please stay tuned to www.willscruggs.com for addional tour dates, and don't forget to call your local jazz radio station to request some BlueBlari Jam!!! |
2006-11-08 @ 6:36am
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Funderhorns Live at the Apollo :|: [Posted by Willis] |
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On Nov. 10 Wes Funderburk, Ken Watters, and Will Scruggs will join Natalie Cole at the Apollo Theater in New York City! After the success of the Funderhorns at the Variety Playhouse show in Atlanta, Ms. Cole requested that the guys fly up for her performance at Harlem's legendary venue. Check out www.apollotheater.com for more details. |
2006-08-02 @ 5:02pm
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Funderhorns record with NATALIE COLE :|: [Posted by Willis] |
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When Natalie Cole's new record is released in September, 2006, listeners all over the world will be introduced to Atlanta's newest horn section, the Funderhorns. Featuring Ken Watters, trumpet, Wes Funderburk, trombone, and Will Scruggs, saxes, the Funerhorns were brought in by Ms. Cole and producer Dallas Austin to play on a new version of Bonnie Raitt's "Love Letter." The session was so successful that horns were quickly added to two more tracks - an R+B rendition of Fiona Apple's "Criminal," and a Cole/Austin original entitled "5 Minutes." Shortly after the Natalie Cole session was finished the Funderhorns returned to Dallas Austin's DARP Studios to cut a track for the super-foxy rapper/singer Kelis, whose "Milkshake" was a Top 10 hit in 2004. Kelis's album will hit stores by late August, 2006. |
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Featured Performances:
| Sat July 11, '09 | Will Scruggs Trio
Ray's on the River
6700 Powers Ferry Rd. Sandy Springs GA, 30339 |
8 PM - 12 AM |
| Fri July 17, '09 | CC Booker III feat. Will Scruggs
Private Party
Roswell, GA |
7:30 PM - 9 PM |
| Sat July 25, '09 | Will Scruggs Trio
Ray's on the River
6700 Powers Ferry Rd. Sandy Springs GA, 30397 |
8 PM - 12 AM |
| Sat July 25, '09 | Will Scruggs Trio
Ray's on the River
6700 Powers Ferry Rd. Sandy Springs GA, 30339 |
8 PM - 12 AM |
| Fri August 14, '09 | Kingsized ELVIS Death-day Spectacular w/Dames Aflame
Variety Playhouse
Little 5 Points, Atlanta, GA |
8 - 11 PM |
| Sat August 15, '09 | Kingsized ELVIS Death-Day Memorial Concert
Variety Playhouse
Little 5 Points, Atlanta, GA |
8 PM - 11 PM |
| Fri August 21, '09 | CC Booker III feat. Will Scruggs
Darwin's
1598 Roswell Rd., Marietta, GA 30062 |
9 PM - 1 AM |
| Fri December 4, '09 | Will Scruggs Jazz Fellowship
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC |
8 PM - 10 PM |
On-Going Performances:**
| Mondays | Open. | |
| Tuesdays | Open. | |
| Wednesdays | Soulphonics & Ruby Velle
Star Bar
Little 5 Points, Atlanta, GA |
10 PM - 1 AM |
| Thursdays | Open. | |
| Fridays | Open. | |
| Saturdays | Open. | |
| Sundays | Open. |
| **these dates valid if there isn't another performance listed in Featured Performances! |
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Will Scruggs: A Life of Jazz
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Born in Atlanta, Will Scruggs began playing sax at the age of 8 before going on to be voted Most Outstanding Member of the Enloe High School Jazz Band in Raleigh, North Carolina, and selected as the First Chair Baritone Sax in the 1998 Honor Band of America.
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At Emory University, Will was named the top college jazz musician of 2001 in Alabama and Georgia by the Alabama Jazz and Blues Federation. While attending Emory he studied saxophone with Nathanael Fareed Mahluli and was mentored by Gary Motley and Rev. Dr. Dwight Andrews. After becoming the first student ever to graduate from Emory with Highest Honors in Jazz Performance, "Mr. Scruggs" joined Teach for America to teach first grade in Southeast Atlanta.
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Will has recorded two full-length albums of original music with Cadillac Jones, an original jazz/funk band out of Atlanta. Their second record, Junk in the Trunk, was released in 2003 by Harmonized Records, a subsidiary of Leeway's Homegrown Music Network. During his time with Cadillac Jones, Will had the opportunity to sit in with both the Dirty Dozen and Rebirth Brass Bands, open shows for Charlie Hunter and Blood, Sweat, and Tears, and perform at the Knitting Factory in New York, NY. During this time he also made regular guest appearances with Perpetual Groove throughout the Southeast and as far as California, where he shared the stage with Skerik, Jessica Lurie, and Umphrey's McGee's Jake Cinninger at the 2003 High Sierra Music Festival.
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In 2004 Will left Cadillac Jones to lead his own band, the Will Scruggs Jazz Fellowship, releasing a self-titled CD in early 2005. The independent album received airplay on over 50 radio stations nationwide, quickly turning a profit. After touring the East Coast and bringing messages of peace, justice, and unity to audiences from Florida to Washington, DC, the Jazz Fellowship performed at the 2006 Atlanta Jazz Festival as winners of the 2005 Future of Jazz Competition. The second original Jazz Fellowship album, BlueBari Jam, is set to be released by the end of 2006.
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In addition to his success as a bandleader, Will Scruggs is quickly making a name for himself as one of the top-call saxophonists in the Southeast. In 2002 he was featured as a special guest soloist with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and the Emory Symphony Orchestra. Since 2003 he has appeared on over 20 albums, including records produced by Dallas Austin, Noel Alphonso, and Oliver Wood. As a member of the Funderhorns, Will can be heard on LeavinŐ, the newest record from Eight-time Grammy ¨ Award winner Natalie Cole. He also performed with Ms. Cole at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta and the Apollo Theater in New York City. Scruggs has appeared multiple times on Good Day Atlanta and the Cartoon Network as a member of the Kingsized Orchestra, traveled to Detroit with the roots-reggae band Revelation, and completed an extensive Southeast College Tour with singer/songwriter and Red Drum Records artist Chris Cauley. He also performs regularly with vocalist Audrey Shakir.
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Will Scruggs currently lives in Atlanta, GA. In December 2006 he completd a MasterŐs of Music in Jazz Studies at Georgia State University. When he is not traveling or recording, he serves as music manger, booking agent, and leader of the house band at RayŐs Killer Creek in Alpharetta, GA. He also volunteers regularly as a tutor and mentor with his former students from Teach for America and tours in a 1990 Diesel Ford van that runs on 100% waste vegetable oil. |
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Will Scruggs plays Conn/Selmer Saxophones exclusively.
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