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Sasha
Dobson Trio In order to get to know her better, we asked Sasha to answer a few questions. Here’s what she had to say: What is the first recording
you remember hearing as a child? What’s your
favorite tune? Who is your greatest musical influence? What’s the strangest experience you’ve
ever had on the bandstand? If you could play
with any other musician, living or dead (with whom you have not
played), who would it be and why? What’s your
favorite thing about being a Stanford Jazz Workshop faculty member? What’s your
favorite jazz venue? If you were stranded
on a desert island and could only have three recordings with you,
what would they be? How much do you practice each week? When did you become
interested in music, and what circumstances or events led to your
becoming a professional musician? If you were to describe your music as a
color, what color would it be and why? What’s your
favorite food? What’s the most exotic place you’ve
traveled to as a musician? What’s the last book you’ve
read? What hobbies do you have? To read a feature profile of Sasha written by Andy Gilbert for the San Jose Mercury News, click here for our "Media Archives" page. To find out more about Sasha, go to sashadobson.com |
A native of Santa Cruz (and alum of the Stanford Jazz Workshop),
one might say that for
Dobson, singing jazz comes as naturally as breathing. Sasha’s
mother is jazz singer Gail Dobson and her father was the brilliant
late pianist Smith Dobson. Sasha spent her formative years
surrounded by jazz musicians—as she puts it, “your basic
everyday working jazz family.” A performer herself since the
age
of twelve, Sasha made her way to New York, interpreting the
standards of Ellington, Porter, Styne and Kern at jazz club Smoke.
After meeting Richard Julian and Jesse Harris, two songwriters/
guitarists enjoying popular success from their collaboration with
Norah Jones, Sasha began writing original songs with elements of
bossa nova, pop, jazz and folk. Named one of six “Jazz Singers
Worth A Listen” in a recent issue of Time
Magazine, her Stanford
concert will include songs from the American songbook, material
from her recent CD “Modern Romance” and even a few new
tunes.