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Sean Dobbins & The Collegiate Collage
Sean Dobbins leads The Collegiate Collage band performing sets characterized by hard-driving rhythm and melodic sensibility. Dobbins is an award-winning jazz drummer who began his career in the Detroit area and currently serves as a professor at Indiana University.
Sean Dobbins started as a sought-after jazz sideman in the Detroit area at a young age, regularly playing with Blue Note artist Louis Smith. He has received multiple awards including the Woody Herman Jazz Award for outstanding musicianship and the Louis Armstrong Scholarship. His style features solid rhythms and refreshing melodies influenced by drummers such as Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. Dobbins currently teaches jazz studies at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Performing with The Collegiate Collage, he appears in two sets at the Blue LLama Jazz Club in Ann Arbor.
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