Faculty
Keith Kelly, Coordinator of Jazz StudiesEmail: kkelly1@csustan.edu
Office: (209) 667 3533
Saxophonist and educator Keith Kelly, a San Francisco Bay Area native, holds degrees in music from the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific and Arizona State University. As a woodwind specialist, Kelly has performed with the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Phoenix Theater, Natalie Cole, Bear Valley Music Festival, and the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet. As an educator, Kelly has taught public school band, orchestra, choir, and jazz band in Northern California and has worked regularly as a saxophone coach, improvisation specialist, and jazz ensemble director at summer music institutes in both California and Arizona. Kelly has also directed the Young Sounds of San Joaquin, Tri-Valley Jazz Workshop, and the Paradise Valley Jazz Institute.
As a researcher, his focus is on teacher preparation, gender and music participation, and the early history of public school jazz education. As a collegiate music educator, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music at Paradise Valley Community College, Boston University (Online) and Arizona State University. Kelly is currently completing a DMA in Music Education (Jazz Studies), focusing on the ways in which middle-school and high-school students learn to play jazz. He maintains an active private teaching studio in addition to his faculty responsibilities at California State University - Stanislaus.
Allen Brown, Director of Percussion Studies, Small Jazz EnsembleEmail: albrown4449@comcast.net
Allen Brown is a lecturer in percussion at CSUS Stanislaus. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Oregon, the Master of Music degree from Western Michigan University and had done doctoral work at the University of Illinois. He has studied with John Bergamo, C.K. Ladzekpo, Ray Holman, Cliff Alexis, Michael Brucker, Michael Paradis, Ed Mann, Thomas Siwe, Robert Tilles, and many others. Prior to coming to UOP, he held teaching positions at Concordia College, Moorhead State University, North Dakota State University, and Western State College in Colorado.
Professor Brown's performance specialties include all areas of percussion in symphonic, solo, chamber, jazz, and commercial settings. He is the jazz vibraphonist and director of the Pacific Jazz Quintet. He has performed with Clark Terry, Sammy Nestico, Toni Tennile, Ed Mann, Diahann Carroll, Vic Damone, and with organizations such as the San Joaquin Ballet and Opera Orchestras, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockton Symphony Orchestra, and many others.
Professor Brown has authored articles on percussion published in the NACWPI Journal, The Percussionist, Woodwind World, Brass and Percussion; has composed several works for percussion; and has numerous arrangements to his name. At CSU-Stanislaus he teaches applied percussion, jazz combo, and is director of the percussion ensemble.
Email: bonejazz@aol.com
James ( Jamie) Dubberly is a lecturer at CSU Stanislaus in low brass. He holds a Bachelors degree in music from the University of Georgia, and a Masters degree in music from The Hartt School of Music ( University of Hartford), where he also participated in a doctoral program, and was on the faculty as an adjunct, part time instructor. James is a versatile performer, teacher, and composer and has enjoyed a performing and teaching career that spans many styles and genres. While doing graduate work at the Hartt School, James became increasingly interested in jazz and improvisational music and wound up in an ensemble led by Steve Davis, trombonist at the time with Art Blakey’s jazz messengers, and faculty member at The Hartt School. Exposure to the jazz program at Hartt, led by legendary alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, led to a further pursuance of jazz and the African-American music tradition for James. In 1997 , Dubberly moved to New York City, where he soon was performing with a wide variety of jazz and latin ensembles, including the Art Lillard Big ( “heavenly”) Band, Brooklyn Big Band, Bill Warfield Big Band, Lew Anderson Big Band, Luis Blasini, Neil Kirkwood’s “discovery” Orchestra, George Gee Big Band, Carol Sudhalter Big Band, Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra and many others.
Since moving to California in 2003, James has performed with many bay area jazz groups, including the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Realistic Orchestra, Mike Vax Big Band, and several salsa groups including award -winning “Avance”, of which he is a current member. James has performed with many notable salsa soneros since coming to the Bay Area, including Frankie Vasquez (Soneros del Barrio), Willie Torres ( Spanish Harlem Orchestra) and platinum selling artist Tony Vega. James has also performed with many of today’s top jazz and latin artists including Pete Escovedo, Poncho Sanchez, Arturo O’Farrill, Alan Harris, Endel Dueno, Karl Perazzo, Louis Romero, Jimmy Greene, Essiet Essiet, Wayne Escoffrey, Kenny Rampton, Marc Gross, and Doug Beavers, and many others.
James has toured four continents, and over 20 countries with ensembles ranging from chamber music, symphony orchestras, broadway style “pit” orchestras, to salsa and latin jazz. He performed on national and international tours of several broadway productions, including “Five Guys named Moe”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “How to succeed in business without really trying”, “Grease”, “West Side Story”, and “ A Chorus Line”. Having recently become enamored with latin jazz, James has formed his own band -“Orquesta Dharma” , which showcases his writing and arranging talents, and is currently in the recording process for a soon to be released CD. James has also recently started a jazz vespers concert series at the First United Methodist Church of Modesto, of which he is also a member.