Today was fantastic! The opening festivities included the Horace Silver tune “Strollin’” – and halfway through, the staff had morphed the Silver classic into some other tune and then back again. As if that wasn’t spectacular enough, they also played a piece trombonist Wayne Wallace composed last week. From there, everyone headed off for master classes and combos. After a delicious pasta lunch, kids scattered into their various elective classes, including a very well atttended Percussion for Non-Percussionists session, as well as a B-3 summit – with 5 B-3 Hammond organs all going at once! – and more jams for the blues, funk, Latin jazz and Brazilian. In short, music wafted down every hall all day.
Tomorrow: More of the same … only even better.
