Skip Dolt��s love of jazz and big band music was cultivated early in life. Growing up "down in the west Texas town of El Paso", he was selected in high school to perform in the Texas All-State Jazz Ensemble and went on to play in the Texas Christian University Jazz Ensemble for four years. In 2012, he performed with The Curt Wilson Alumni Jazz Band at The Royal College of Music in London and The American Cemetery at Omaha Beach in Normandy. In 2015, he traveled again with The Curt Wilson Alumni Jazz Band to perform at the prestigious Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, and The Jazz a Juan Festival in Antibes, France. Skip retunred with the Curt Wilson Alumni Band in 2019 to play in the Heineken Jazzaldia Festival in San Sebastian, Spain. Skip was honored as the 2014 inductee into the TCU Band of Fame. When he's not playing trombone, Skip pursues his hobby as a local dentist.