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Wilson Hall 4031
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In 2007 Dr. Doug Scarborough joined the Music Department at Washington and Lee University where he teaches Music Theory, Composition, History of Jazz, Post WWII American Popular Music, and is director of the SonoKlect Concert Series of Modern Music. Before coming to W&L, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies and Low Brass at Whitman College in the state of Washington.
As trombonist, he has appeared with the Walla Walla Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, and the University-Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra, as well as contributed record reviews to the International Trombone Association Journal.
Dr. Scarborough received his D.A. in Music Theory and Composition with an emphasis in Jazz Pedagogy from the University of Northern Colorado (2005) and his MME (1995) and BME (1992) from Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi.
While studying jazz at UNC, his trombone playing led to three Downbeat Magazine jazz awards. He was keyboardist for legendary fusion guitarist Shawn Lane (Warner Bros. Records) and a member of the experimental jazz/rock band mindGOflip, touring the U.S. from 2000-03. As a singer/songwriter, he has recorded two solo CD's under his own name and has been featured as trombonist, pianist, guitarist, bassist, and vocalist on numerous other recordings. He has shared the stage with such jazz legends as Bobby Shew, Benny Golson, Louie Bellson, and Kenny Wheeler.
Doug has worked as adjudicator and clinician at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, ID and the Kinser Jazz Festival in Casper, WY. He is currently arranger for the Colorado-based salsa band Quemando that headlined the Denver JazzFest in 2007.
He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the International Association of Jazz Educators, the International Trombone Association, and the Blues Highway Association.
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