Season 1 Episode 4
“The Creative World of Stan Kenton”
Welcome to this series of blogs we playfully named “Bobble Around with Doc”. In this series, we will share former student’s heartfelt tributes as well as some of Doc’s stories, adventures and fun facts.
One might ask, why the bobblehead?
At Doc’s 80th birthday party his daughter Kerri gave him a custom bobblehead. It instantly became a hit with the DocFest family, who in turn, adopted it as their mascot. The whimsical figurine has found its way on all of the DF traditional celebratory cakes as well as part of this series.
Follow us as we learn more about why Doc is so loved and adored!
Here we go again…..”Doc” Morgan goes to LA!
More bragging rights!
Earlier this year Doc traveled to L.A. to participate in a festival “The Creative World of Stan Kenton” produced by the Los Angeles Jazz Institute. Over the course of 3 days, he was proud to co-moderate “Stan Kenton and the Exposion of Jazz Education with Mike Vas. The festival included 15 concerts, film showings, panel discussions and various special themed sessions. As is often the case, the highlights of the festival for Doc was the mini-reunions with HSPVA alums. According to Doc, there are at least 9 additional jazz alums in the area enjoying successful careers in L.A.
Doc with Greg Zekowski, Chris Trahan and Chad Willis. Happy hour with (L-R) Jason Borger, Reggie Quinerly, Aaron Anderson, Chris Trahan, Jeane July, Herman Matthews.
DocFest Inc. was conceived in 2013 by Chris Walker and Ashley (Tamar) Davis, both alumni of Houston’s High School for Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), to honor the career of Robert “Doc” Morgan, HSPVA Director of Jazz Studies (1976 – 1999) and Chair of Instrumental Music (1978 – 1992). The Mission is to support higher education for HSPVA jazz alumni, primarily accomplished by an annual series of benefit concerts featuring successful HSPVA graduates and renowned guest artists.
Thus far, DocFest has contributed over $200,000 to the Helen and Bob Morgan Jazz Scholarship. Your DocFest donations will help support this fund.
Tickets to DocFest ’23 Gala (Sunday, October 15th) are going fast, they are available through October 5th and will not be sold at the door.
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