Daryll Dobson

String Jazz Theory: From Guitar to Violin: The Transformation

Daryll Dobson is a American Jazz Violinist, Guitarist, Composer and Audio Engineer.
He began his formal jazz studies in New York at SUNY College at Old Westbury. The Jazz Studies program was founded by Jazz Multi Instrumentalist Makanda Ken McIntyre and Jazz Percussionist Warren Smith.

When Daryll Dobson gave up living on land in 2021 he knew he would return someday…He just didn’t know When and Where that would happen.

But he knew he would also fulfill another dream upon his return and that was to transfer all of his musical knowledge to a new instrument, the Electric 5 String Violin.

Contact Daryll Dobson and String Theory Productions at [email protected]

Daryll Dobson: Healing Intentions

Read "Healing Intentions" reviewed by Scott Andrews

by Scott Andrews
April 12, 2002

Fusion guitarist Daryll Dobson released Healing Intentions in 1997, following up his previous light fusion record Studio 21 and his electric fusion record The Mind Electric, which featured L. Shankar and Kenny Kirkland. Healing Intentions regroups some of the less famous members of the band on The Mind Electric, including Delmar Brown, Kenwood Dennard, and Rael Grant, to play electric fusion with subtle ethereal touches over a driving backbeat.

Despite the pseudo-metaphysical framing of Healing Intentions by the ...

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Daryll Dobson: Studio 21

Read "Studio 21" reviewed by Scott Andrews

by Scott Andrews
April 12, 2002

Fusion guitarist Daryll Dobson released Studio 21 back in 1994, a record of light, R&B flavored instrumental fusion with one song featuring a guest vocalist. Since then, Dobson has released several other electric fusion records, including Healing Intentions and Mind Electric.The first half of Studio 21 is dreamy light fusion, with songs that seem to run together with similar sounding phrases. The guest vocals on “Down to This" and the soprano saxophone on several tracks help to revive ...

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Daryll Dobson: From Fusion Guitarist To 5 String Jazz Violinist - The Adventures Continue!

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July 5, 2023

Daryll Dobson performs the music of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Carlos Santana, Harold Melvin, B.B. King on String Jazz Theory, his eighth jazz album produced over a 30 year span. Daryll Dobson is a Jamaican American jazz violinist, guitarist, composer, audio engineer and videographer. He began his formal jazz studies in New York at SUNY College at Old Westbury. The Jazz Studies program was founded by jazz multi instrumentalist Ken McIntyre and ...
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...a mahavishnu-esque journey to the stratosphere with Hendrixian flights of feedback...untamed, explosive, guitar fantasia...Downbeat magazine

...backed by musicians such as violinist L. Shankar and keyboardist Kenny Kirkland, Dobson burns...deft ensemble playing- Guitar Player magazine

...an exceptional guitarist...gobs of virtuosic guitar...fusion guitar fans will eat up “Thor Part 2” - Option magazine

Somewhere between the gigantic continents of jazz and rock lies a formidable musical gulf that is as controversial as it is undefinable. Jazz Purists”cynically categorize it as fusion, but within its fat layer is a lean, mean, muscular infrastructure, rich with technical wizardry, emotional breadth, and unexplored musical frontiers.