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The Smith Dobson Group at Jazz Club! Series at Bird & Beckett Books and Records
Courtesy of Eric Whittington | Posted on November 29, 2015
Where
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
Jazz Club! Series
653 Chenery Street
San Francisco, CA
Map
(415) 586-3733
When
Sat, December 5, 2015
7:30 pm
At Door
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Musicians
About
Smith Dobson, alto saxophone, leads a quartet that includes trumpeter Henry Hung, bassist Miles Wick and drummer Evan Hughes in an exploration of Ornette Coleman’s music.
Coleman had a remarkable influence on the shape of jazz to come for so many generations of musicians that followed.
Says Smith, “Ornette’s music started to liberate me from the confines of straight ahead jazz when I was still a teenager playing drums in a band in Santa Cruz days called Guts (with Robert Overbury, Jay Sanders and Scott Larson). We had a weekly gig at a long-defunct club and even a small but loyal following. ...