Guatemala Jazz Festival 2015 – workshop Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

It was wonderful to return to Guatemala, this time with quartet and LaFrae Sci on drums (she and I were there in 2011 with the Blues Band), Evan Christopher on clarinet and Paul Beaudry on bass.  The first day we gave a workshop at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, got to know the wonderful students including a great young singer named Jose Pablo who sang Misty, a budding bassist named Gabriiela as well as The Prez, M.Sc. Lester Homero Godinez Orantes.  We taught the heartbeat is the shuffle and the shuffle is the heartbeat of the blues…

 

 

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