Joe Bagale (Drums, Bass, Voice, Piano)
Eastman School of Music (1 1/2 yrs.). Record producer; Manager, Coast Recorders, SF; awarded "Outstanding Rhythm Section Player" by Wynton Marsalis; studied with Rich Thompson, Steve Gadd, Ben Monder, Clay Jenkins, Ron Carter, Darmon Meader, Scott Amendola; played with Fred Wesley (James Brown); leader, Joe Bagale Band. www.joebagale.com.
Gail Dobson (Voice)
Bay area jazz singer, Gail Dobson has been performing and teaching voice for over twenty years. She 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 Jazzschool in Berkeley, designed and taught the San Jose Jazz Society’s “Jazz Goes to College” Summer Jazz Program, and helped to coordinate and direct the San Jose Jazz Society’s Youth Competition. She 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 Jazzschool, the Wave St Studios in Monterey, where they were invited to do their own video, and many other great gigs, wowing audiences with their love and enthusiasm for music. 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.
Rob Ewing (Trombone, Drums, Bass)
Jazzschool Academic Program Administrator (2006-present). Jazzschool Summer Youth Program Director (2003-present) BA Naropa University, 2 years Berklee College of Music ( Jazz Trombone and Drumset). Adjudicator for the 2008 reno Jazz Festival. Leader of Disappear Incompletely- The Radiohead Project. Performances with The Latin Giants of Jazz (Tito Puente All-Stars), Ray Vega, Wayne Wallace, Graham Connah, Joe bagale, The Slip, Kasey Knudsen Sextet, Jazzschool Composers Collective, Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Realistic Orchestra. www.robewing.com
Erik Jekabson (Trumpet)
MA in Composition, SF Conservatory of Music; B.Mus. in Trumpet, Oberlin Conservatory of Music. toured with John Mayer, Illinois Jacquet and Galactic, and composed for film and dance projects. recorded solo album "Intersection" on Fresh Sound/New Talent label. Currently teaching at Berkeley City College and Los Medanos college.
Keith Johnson (Trumpet)
Jazzschool Young Musicians Program Director. San Jose State U. (degree in progress). Director, Jazz
Bands, Portola Middle School (2003-06); awards at CMEA Jazz Festival, 2005-06; Santa Cruz Jazz
Festival, 2005-06; Folsom Jazz Festival, 2006; Reno Jazz Festival, 2005-06; and Vancouver Heritage
Music Festival, 2006.
Kasey Knudsen (Saxophone)
BA in Jazz Composition, Berklee College of Music. Bay Area performer, composer; leader of her own trio and sextet; faculty, Young Musicians Program, UC Berkeley, 2004–06.
Jessica Neighbor (Voice)
BA in Theater, UCLA; California Emergency Teaching Credential. Studied with Jane Sharp, Judy Davis,
Frank Martin, Steve Seskin, Eve Burges; founder, leader, Jessica Neighbor and the Hoods. www.jessicaneighbor.com
Dave Scott (Trumpet)
MA in Trumpet Performance, U. of Northern Colorado; BA in Instrumental Music, U. of Michigan.
National performing and recording artist, jazz, classical idioms; lead trumpet, Contemporary Jazz
Orchestra, The Realistic Orchestra, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra; performs with Boz Scaggs, Glide
Memorial Church Change Band, Brass Monkey Band; founder of TRUMPET SUPERGROUP, Dave Scott Jazz Quartet.
Wayne Wallace (Trombone)
BA in Music Performance, San Francisco State U. (in progress). National and international performing
artist, composer, arranger, educator; faculty, San Francisco State U., Stanford Jazz Workshop, San
Jose State U., UC Berkeley, Jazz Camp West; grants, N.E.A., Zellerbach Foundation, San Francisco
Arts Commission, Creative Work Fund; recording artist, producer, arranger for Angela Bofill, Celine
Dion, Con Funk Shun, Pete Escovedo, Chris Isaak, Santana, Sister Sledge; performed with George Duke,Joe Henderson Big Band, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Bobby Hutcherson, Irakere, Dr. John, Eartha Kitt, GladysKnight, Patti LaBelle, Tito Puente, John Santos and the Machete Ensemble, Sonny Rollins, The
Temptations, James Taylor, McCoy Tyner Big Band, Los Van Van, Tony Williams, Dionne Warwick, Stevie Winwood, Stevie Wonder. www.walacomusic.com
Michael Zilber (Saxophones)
Ph.D. in Composition, NYU; MM in Composition, Tufts U.; B.Mus. in Composition, New England
Conservatory. National and international performing and recording artist, composer, arranger,
educator; performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Dave Liebman, Miroslav Vitous, Bob Berg,
Eddie Henderson, Fareed Haque, Geoff Keezer, Donald Harrison, John Handy, Dave Douglas, Rachel Z, James Genus, Narada Michael Walden, Barry Finnerty Steve Smith, Bruce Barth www.michaelzilber.com
