Gail Dobson Youth in jazz October 26, 2008

"GAIL DOBSON YOUTH IN JAZZ"
plus
more of Gail's vocal students singing pop, broadway, and beyond.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26th
2pm
plus
an interview sometime before or after with Norma "Nana" Dobson Neal
discussing the DOBSON LEGACY.
1st set
GAIL DOBSON YOUTH IN JAZZ
singing straight ahead, samba, jazz ballads and some Stevie Wonder!
2nd set
GAIL DOBSON VOCAL STUDENTS singing broadway, pop, jazz, and beyond!

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, 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.
Gail was the featured vocalist with the ITHACA COLLEGE JAZZ BIG BAND,
under the direction of educator/guitarist STEVE BROWN, and also was
invited to give jazz clinics to their vocal department. Concurrently
with this visit she gave clinics to the music students of the Frederick
Douglas Academy of Harlem who were invited to Ithaca to participate in
the weekend's activities. Gail was invited to the Academy to sing and do
clinics, and was deeply touched by the school's genuine love and
dedication to their students.

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