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Zoe Obadia
Zoe Obadia is a saxophonist, composer, and teacher based in New York City. Originally from New Jersey, she started playing the saxophone at age nine and became immersed in a community of great jazz musicians and educators in her area.
She moved to New York in 2014 to begin her studies at the Juilliard School, where she learned from Ron Blake, Kenny Washington, Dan Block and others, earning an undergraduate and masters degree. She has since performed in New York City as a leader and sideman at venues such as Dizzy’s, Mezzrow, Birdland, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, and has had the opportunity to play with Wynton Marsalis, the Mingus Big Band, Dave Stryker, Diane Schuur, and others
Meet Saxophonist Zoe Obadia
by Sanford Josephson
This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. In April 2019, alto saxophonist Zoe Obadia sat in with the Bill Charlap Trio to play Dave Brubeck's “Time Out" at International Jazz Day. “I was definitely very nervous to sit in with such an established and refined trio," she said," but I had fun and ...
Jazz House Kids: The House that Jazz Built
by Bob Kenselaar
When we think of jazz education, we might first think about what's developed at the college level and at music conservatories over the last fifty years or so, and then maybe consider how jazz instruction and jazz bands have flourished at the high school and middle school levels a little more recently. But beyond these settings, ...
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