Lots of shows in June and July

Sasha will be playing a bunch of shows during June and July... San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle, New York are all on the schedule. Please check the SHOWS page for dates and details. Please come out an say hello if you can.

New album available now!

"Modern Romance" features thirteen songs including eleven originals, and an uncanny pair of covers: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Modern Romance" and the Duke Ellington standard "Mood Indigo." The album, a fusion of Brazilian groove, pop and jazz showcases Dobson's seasoned vocal ability and captures the very heart of an artist who simultaneously respects tradition and upends convention.

You can listen to songs from the album here: [ LISTEN ]

1. Without You 2. Modern Romance 3. Been Here Before 4. Cold To Colder 5. Four Leaf Clover 6. Crescent 7. If Not For Dreams 8. Follow Through 9. Spring Is Just Around The Corner 10. Young And Free 11. End Of Autumn 12. I Never Changed My Mind 13. Mood Indigo

Live at Lincoln Center.

Sasha will be performing at Lincoln Center as part of their American Songbook series on February 22, 2007. Jesse Harris and Richard Julian will also be on the show.

[ MORE INFO ] [ TICKETS ]

WXPN's World Cafe.

Sasha and her band recorded a live performance and interview that will be featured on World Cafe on Tuesday, November 21, 2006.

The World Cafe with David Dye can be heard on more than 180 stations nationwide.
Find your local station here: http://worldcafe.org
Or listen online at 2pm EST here: http://www.xpn.org/listen.php

NPR's Mountain Stage.

Sasha and her band performed on NPR's Mountain Stage recently. The show was recorded in front of a live audience at the Charleston, WV Cultural Center and will run on NPR stations nationwide January 5. Sasha is joined by Jesse Harris, Richard Julian, Tim Luntzel, and Rob Dipietro.

[ VISIT MOUNTAIN STAGE ]

"Without You" KCRW's Top Tune.

"Without You" will be featured on KCRW's Today's Top Tune podcast on Friday, Otober 13th. You can download the song from KCRW's website or direct from iTunes.

[ FREE DOWNLOAD FROM KCRW ]
[ FREE DOWNLOAD FROM ITUNES ]

Sasha featured in TIME MAGAZINE.

6 Jazz Singers Worth A Listen
Need to cool down in the dog days? Take a taste of these refreshing stylists
By CHRISTOPHER PORTERFIELD

Like many young jazz singers nowadays, Dobson, 26, is trying for a mellow pop-jazz groove. Her plangent, almost vibrato-free voice rides over a melange of island rhythms, bossa nova and folky acoustics, mostly in new songs she has co-written. They go down as easily as frozen margaritas, never more beguilingly than when she slips in scat syllables like "dit-doo, die-yah-da-doo" in Four Leaf Clover, or simply "ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh" in Cold to Colder.

[ VIEW ARTICLE HERE ]

Conde Nast's Fashion Rocks.

10 UP & COMING ACTS TO WATCH
Sasha Dobson takes you back to the good old days. The days when it all that mattered was a song and a voice. She does this with a mainly acoustic set of quietly percolating songs that sound like they were plucked from some sophisticated jazzy Brazilian songbook, but are actually all originals with the exception of two astonishing covers. The first cover, which lends Dobson's album its title, is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Modern Romance," which gets an entirely new life as a sunny, acoustic Appalachian love song. The other is Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo." A classic by Sir Duke is not easy to live up to, but somehow a white girl from Santa Cruz with a mercurial voice and a nose ring, accompanied only by a strummed banjo and a plucked electric bass, just did.

[ VIEW ARTICLE HERE ]

Live review in New York Times.

"Spend enough time around the Lower East Side and you just might encounter a charming young singer with a taste for lilting acoustic folk-pop. She has an eminently listenable voice: sensuous but diffident, and devoid of showy pretense. She keeps good company, like the singer-songwriters Jesse Harris and Richard Julian. She's a competent songwriter herself, but not averse to covering tunes; as a nod to her jazz upbringing, she closes her latest solo album with a honey-drip ballad by Duke Ellington."

[ VIEW ARTICLE HERE ]