Sunday, October 26th: Gail Dobson’s Youth in Jazz
| Gail has been a jazz vocal adjudicator/clinician for the Monterey, Folsom, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Campana, and R.A.V.E. Competitions, to name a few, and for many years led the young people’s vocal jazz program for the Stanford Jazz Workshop.She has been the vocal teacher for the San Jose Jazz Society’s “Jazz Goes to College” Summer Jazz Program, and helped to coordinate the San Jose Jazz Society’s Youth Competition. She now heads her own school for young singers, “Gail Dobson’s Youth in Jazz” with students from age five and up. Teamed with her first rate jazz band, these young singers have appeared throughout the Bay Area, playing at San Francisco City Hall for the Mayor’s office, Ghirardelli Square, the San Jose Jazz Festival, Border’s Books on Union Square, the Jazz school in Berkeley, and many other great gigs, wowing audiences with their love and enthusiasm for music. On any given week Gail can be found sharing the joy of singing with at least 30 young people in her studio at the World of Music in Cupertino, California.
With her late husband, pianist/singer Smith Dobson, Gail was invited to do vocal clinics at the Honokaa High School in conjunction with the Hamakua Music Festival, on the big island of Hawaii. One thing Gail realizes; there are wonderful young people singing and playing jazz throughout the world, and this is a universal and powerful language that unites us all. |
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