Sean Dobbins
Drummer Sean Dobbins plays two sets, at 7 and 9 p.m. on Friday, January 8, 2027, at Blue LLama Jazz Club in Ann Arbor. He's a Detroit-bred jazz drummer known for hard-driving rhythm and a fresh melodic touch. The cover is $25.
Sean Dobbins got his start young as an in-demand Detroit-area jazz sideman, playing regularly with Blue Note artist Louis Smith. Along the way he picked up the Woody Herman Jazz Award and the Louis Armstrong Scholarship, and today he's a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
His sound is solid, hard-driving rhythm with a refreshing melodic sensibility. Among his influences are Art Blakey, Jeff Hamilton, Sonny Payne, Ed Thigpen, and Detroit greats Gerald Cleaver and Elvin Jones.
Sets start at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. You can reserve a table ahead of time.
His sound is solid, hard-driving rhythm with a refreshing melodic sensibility. Among his influences are Art Blakey, Jeff Hamilton, Sonny Payne, Ed Thigpen, and Detroit greats Gerald Cleaver and Elvin Jones.
Sets start at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. You can reserve a table ahead of time.
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