Great week at Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival

                          What a magnificent week at the 45th Annual Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival.  It’s an amazing gathering of fans, musicians, students, volunteers and staff creating a soulful jazz village in the sparsely populated and somewhat remote region of northern Idaho.  Joy permeates […]

Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Workshops

The next couple of days I gave four workshops at the festival.  One on the blues,”The Blues is the Roots, Everything Else is the Fruits.”  We stomp/clapped, delved into the cultural and emotional roots of the blues, sang “Wade in the Water and the “What Gives You the Blues Blues.”  Once we got on instruments, […]