Smith Dobson Trio

Smith Dobson brings a lifetime of musical depth and creative versatility to Stookey’s Blue Room — a drummer and saxophonist from a renowned Santa Cruz musical family that includes his father, pianist Smith Dobson IV, and his sister, singer Sasha Dobson. A prodigy who began playing drums at age two and landed his first gig in second grade, Dobson moved to San Francisco at 19 and quickly became a fixture in the jazz scene, collaborating with legends Hal Stein and Noel Jewkes and performing at the SFJAZZ Center and Birdland in New York. A writer and visual artist as well as a musician, Dobson is a restlessly creative spirit whose trio promises an evening of warmth, wit, and world-class jazz.