Sean Dobbins & The Collegiate Collage

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.