Dave Robinson Trio
Dave has directed the Capital Focus Jazz Band since its formation in 1988. He is an active jazz performer, historian, and educator. On trumpet, cornet, valve trombone, and vocals, he has performed and toured with the top traditional and swing bands in the Washington DC area. He is the founder of the Traditional Jazz Educators Network is Past President of the American Federation of Jazz Societies and has produced the Smithsonian's Jazz Concert Series. Dave helped to launch the Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival in Sacramento, where he serves as clinician, lecturer and adjudicator, and he also has served on the faculties of the STJS Trad Jazz Youth Camp in the Sierra Nevada mountains and the National Jazz Workshop at Shenandoah University. Dave hosted "The French Quarter" on XM Satellite Radio for three years, drawn from his huge archive of trad jazz recordings. He is currently producing the Traditional Jazz Curriculum Kit for national distribution in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Arts, and various foundations.
