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Dave Eshelman (b. 1948) is a jazz trombonist, composer, arranger, band leader and music educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently a Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at California State University, East Bay. He currently resides in Fremont, California with his wife of over 35 years, Robbie.

Dave has performed extensively with many jazz groups in the Bay Area and has been a featured soloist in the big bands of Ray Brown, Joe Henderson, Tito Puente and Gerald Wilson. His compositions and arrangements has been performed across the United States and Europe by various artists such as Joe Henderson, Don Ellis, Bill Watrous, and Stan Kenton, the Swedish Radio Orchestra and the Airmen of Note.

As an educator he is frequently invited as a guest conductor or adjuidcator for many band festivals and honor bands in Northern California. During his tenure at CSU, East Bay, Professor Eshelman has stenghtened the jazz program into one of national renown. In colliegiate jazz festivals the CSUEB Jazz Ensemble has won first place honors in about seventy five percent of the competitions it has entered for over the last ten years. In 2003 he was named Outstanding Professor of the Year by the university.

In addition to the bands at CSUEB he also leads the Jazz Garden Big Band, an 18 piece jazz band that specializes in contemporary and classic big band repetoire.

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