Sugar Groove

Genre: Pop
Secondary Genre: Jazz Parsippany, New Jersey USA Contact

The music is a blend of funk, jazz and reggae weaved in a pop package. The musicians are all professionals who love to play, and look forward to performing.

Artist Information

Biography

Scott Hogan has been a working musician since he was 15. He toured as the bassist for the pop group Hanson for 4 years, which included a performance on the 98' Grammys and 5 performances on Late Night with David Letterman.

The band is influenced most by music from the 70's. We feel there was an abundance of creative music at that time and a lot of exploration of instruments and sound. We try to replicate that old school vibe.

Scott Hogan studied under jazz bassist/composer John Patittucci and attended New York University as a jazz performance major.

Instrumentation

There were a variety of different musicians on the recordings...
Scott Hogan is the songwriter and played bass, guitar, and vocals... also some of the keyboards
Lou Medina and Scott Winchell played drums
Arne Wendt played the keyboards

Discography

The name of the recording is "Beneath the Sun". It was recorded at Seventh Wave Studio by Larry Kucher....

Sugar Groove recently performed on "Mallet's Place TV", which will air in NYC and LA for approximately 900,000 viewers. The band was also chosen for licsensing by the company Jingle Punks. The song "Barbados" was picked to be on cd entitled "Blow-Up Compilation", and will be incorporated into a tv series entitled "Island Hoppers".

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Audio

Lyrics

Video

Unwinding

Racing to Beat the Sun

Photo Gallery

  • Scott

  • Scott Hogan: Bass and Vocal

  • Scott Winchell: Drums

  • Larry Kucher: Guitar and Vocal

  • Full band pic

  • Singing

  • Groovin' with the phenomenal Jason "Malletman" Taylor

Press

Setlist

Neon, Vultures- John Mayer
Power of Soul, Changes, The Wind Cries Mary- Jimi Hendrix
Lovely Day, Who is He and What is He to You?, Just the two of Us- Bill Withers
Blue Bossa, All Blues- Standards
Pick up the Pieces- Average White Band
Hollywood Swinging, Too Hot- Kool and the Gang
Stir it Up- Bob Marley
Feel Like Makin' Love- Roberta Flack
If You Want Me to Stay- Sly and the Family Stone
I Belong to You- Lenny Kravitz
Don't Know Why- Norah Jones
Pusherman- Curtis Mayfield
Melissa- Allman Brothers Band
Come Together- Beatles
Let's Stay Together- Al Green
Fire and Rain- James Taylor

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Calendar

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