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From Fitzgerald to Wooten, famous jazz has been played at UI kristen koester-smith argonaut Idaho is known for its potatoes, not its incredible jazz clubs. So why do the greatest jazz icons of all time choose to play in the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival? Lynn “Doc” Skinner, the festival’s director from 1976 to 2007, said musicians come for the chance to play for a young audience — students whose lives can be altered by what they hear at a concert. This is why Lionel Hampton wrote a $15,000 check as an endowment for the festival the first time he played in 1984. “He told me, ‘I believe in what you’re doing ... I want to see it stay around,” Skinner said. Before Hampton visited Idaho the festival existed as the University of Idaho Jazz Festival, which debuted in 1968. Kevin Woelfel, director of the UI Lionel Hampton School of Music, said he first attended the jazz festival in the mid‘70s as a junior high and high school student. The festival only hosted one guest appearance at that time, but Woelfel said he was still in awe when the performer played with the number one jazz band from the UI music school. He said the student experience is different now. “You’d come down during the day and play your 15 minutes and you’d get a 15-minute critique,” Woelfel said. “Then you’d go to maybe a clinic with the big artist and then go to the concert. After that you’d go to the local pizza place and hang out with the artist and the University of Idaho students for a few hours.” Woelfel said high school students’ time was much less scripted and the best part of attending Jazz Fest was hanging out on campus, pretending he was a college student. He said his favorite experience was meeting Clark Terry, a worldclass trumpeter. “He was the guest artist the year that I won the outstanding jazz solo,” Woelfel said. “That was just a wonderful experience and he gave me his business card, which I still have. I carried it around with me for a long time.” Woelfel said the hallmark of the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival is the personal nature of it, which he experienced with Terry. He said Terry sat down with him and talked about trumpeting, sharing his
years of knowledge and expertise. Dwina Howey, the festival’s artistic relations director, said the festival grew through word of mouth. She said artists don’t come to UI because it pays great or because it sounds like a fun place to go in February, they come because other great names tell them to. In 1981, Ella Fitzgerald headlined at the festival, something Skinner said he worked hard to make happen. He said he traveled around the country and Canada doing workshops and people were amazed by the artists coming to UI. This created a snowball effect and more and more schools traveled to the festival. Lionel Hampton changed the future of the festival. After Hampton made his donation and expressed interest in the U festival, Skinner suggested Dwina to UI’s president that the Howey name be changed and in 1985 the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival became the first jazz festival to be named after a musician. Skinner said Hampton never missed the festival until his death in August 2002. Howey said she loved the liveliness Hampton exuded when he played. He would be up and down the aisles, playing in people’s faces, really engaging the audience, she said. “He would never stop playing ... a couple times his band almost walked out on him they were so tired,” Howey said. She said the memory that stands out for her is the last time Hamtpon played at UI. “He forgot the words to his song, so the audience sang it for him ... It was just amazing to see how much they loved him,” Howey said. Many other great musicians have performed in the Kibbie Dome and Memorial Gym, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Diana Krall, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Brown, Benny Golson, Stan Getz, Victor Wooten and Roy Hargrove.
He (Lionel Hampton) would never stop playing... a couple of times his band almost walked out on him they were so tired.”
Skinner said he could never pinpoint a favorite moment among his years of being Jazz Festival director because every year had something special about it. But there is something he remembered artists always telling him about why they traveled in the middle of winter to frosted Northern Idaho, “They said, ‘There is something magic happening here, Doc. It doesn’t happen at any other place in the world we play,’” Skinner said. Kristen Koester-Smith can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu
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Victor Wooten performs with the Victor Wooten Band Feb. 25,2011 in the Kibbie Dome for the Lionnel Hampton International Jazz Festival.
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Brendan Burns, instrumental performance major, practices in the Lionel Hamption School of Music building Monday with Jazz Band I as its prepare for their performance Wednesday. They will perform onstage with Anat Cohen and Paquito D’Rivera at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Building ballroom.
more information Jazz Band I will play on-stage with Anat Cohen and Paquito D’Rivera at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Union Building ballroom.
The University of Idaho Lionel Hampton School of Music puts its best jazz performers on stage this year with Anat Cohen and Paquito D’Rivera. For only the second time since 1986, UI Jazz Band I students will be playing on stage with international musicians, said Vern Sielert, director of jazz studies. “The history of the festival, as I understand it, when it began in the ’60s as the University of Idaho Jazz Festival, was one guest artist playing with the U of I band”, Sielert said. “It’s been a long time since that happened.” Sielert, who has been teaching jazz band at UI for six years, has a long personal history with the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. When he taught at the University of Washington, he brought his own band to play in the adjudicated student competitions. “I have been involved from all angles as an adjudicator, as an educator, as a performer,” Sielert said. Sielert said he understands the importance of the education that happens during Jazz Festival. “It’s an opportunity for these students to be showcased,” Sielert said. “We have great students, and there is no better way for them to learn.” Sielert said Jazz Band 1 is the top tier of jazz bands at UI. There are three student jazz bands in the music department and each requires students to audition to participate every semester. “(Jazz Band I) showcases our best competitors,” he said. “There’s a big difference between musicians at the high school level, in college, in real life.” Every jazz band at UI is set up in the style of traditional big bands, Sielert said. This set-up includes four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones and a four-piece rhythm section. This year’s lead alto saxophonist is Jasmine Hankey, a UI junior and veteran of Jazz Band I. “This is my third semester in Jazz Band I,” she said. “It’s really great, but really terrifying.” Hankey said each student in the band is required to sight-read mu-
sic — reading and playing a sheet of music that they haven’t seen or practiced before — as well as be able to improvise, a common feature of American jazz. Playing on-stage with renowned musicians is “a mixture of terror and awe,” Hankey said, and a lot of hard work, but when it all starts to click it is worth it. Hankey said each of the saxophonists sacrifices even their bodies for practice leading up to the festival. “We all have raw slits under our mouths (from their reeds) from all the practice,” she said. Jack Lee, UI senior and guitarist for Jazz Band I, said the hard work is the same for the other instruments. “We were given all the music for the festival six to seven weeks ago,” Lee said. “That seems like a long time, but each time you are given music, you have to show the director that you have it under your fingers by the next rehearsal.” Hankey said she spends about 15 hours a week leading up to the festival on Jazz Band I music alone — three hours of rehearsal every week, plus six hours of sectional practice and six hours of practice at home. “It’s a lot of fun, but so stressful,” she said. Lee said Jazz Festival is a great musical opportunity. “You don’t get to hear this kind of music at this level in Moscow (outside of the festival),” Lee said. Sielert said the work the students put into their performance is not just about the music, but the opportunity to play with international headliner musicians. “They work fast and furious to learn their stuff to play on-stage with these master musicians,” Sielert said. “It takes dedication, hard work and persistence.” Last year, when his band opened for Terell Stafford, known for his trumpet playing ability, Sielert said he was struck by the look of awe in his students’ eyes. “What I will always remember is the immediate reaction of my students getting inspired,” Sielert said. “It’s worth the admission cost, but you also get to hear some truly great music.” Angelene Little can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu
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Keep it classy nicole lichtenberg argonaut If you are planning to get jazzy this week, there are a few things you need to remember to make the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival experience enjoyable — for you and everyone else. First, there is an important distinction to be made between student performances and the concerts. Steven Remington, executive director of Jazz Festival, said band directors and their young charges often travel great distances and prepare all year to have their performances evaluated by professionals. At the student performances, it’s important to be respectful of the students’ time and effort by being courteous and giving students the quiet they need to focus. The most important tenet is to turn off your cell phone. Additionally, there is no outside food allowed in the student performances. The professional concerts are much more casual. There are concessions, and dancing and conversations are encouraged, and applause is welcome at any time. There are a couple guidelines to follow during performances and they are important to remember. “Like gravity, they are not just an idea, they are the law,” Remington said. Video or audio recording of the concerts and performances are not allowed. In addition to these being disrespectful, doing so is a violation of the law. Flash photography is also forbidden. The most important things to remember at the Jazz Fest are common sense, courtesy and respect for others. Some people have been waiting all year for this opportunity to be immersed in jazz, and being disrespectful will spoil their fun. As rapper Atmosphere often advises his fans at concerts, “Have a good time, but don’t let your good time infringe upon the rights of other people’s good times.” Nicole Lichtenberg can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu.
Making Jazz Fest possible Student volunteers help events run smoothly and that’s basically where it started for Jazz Fest.” Brintnall said there are Considering the heavy many things he’s enjoyed workload taken on by Unithrough his Jazz Fest volunversity of Idaho students, teer experience. free time can be lim“It’s been rewarding ited. Sometimes students’ in the sense that you’re downtime is best spent getting up at the crack relaxing with a of dawn, and good movie or you’re working catching up with hard for a cause, friends. However, versus wasting using free time the day away,” to volunteer for Brintnall said. a worthy cause “You’re helpis both gratifying ing your school, and great for the you’re helping community. your community The Lio— it’s bigger than nel Hampton yourself.” UI International Taryn Ball, UI Jazz Festival is junior, is also volBlake here and many unteering as a site Brintnall students are manager, overseevolunteering for ing the Student the event. Blake Brintnall, Union Building ballroom. UI junior, is volunteering as “I am in a living group a site manager for the 2012 on campus and I’m the Jazz Festival. Philanthropy Chair, so in Brintnall said his duties December, I knew that (the include running the site, Jazz Festival) was commanaging volunteers, talking up and I knew that it’s ing to directors and maksomething that we paring sure everything goes ticipate in every year, so smoothly. Site manager I wanted to get a leg up,” is a position Brintnall has Ball said. worked his way up to. She said part of her “As a freshman, I was a duties will include “greetvolunteer at the same site ing the students and the that I’m managing now,” directors when they come Brintnall said. “Last year I in, making sure they go helped out too. This year from each different stage, I’m actually taking the whether it’s where they class. It’s a month-and-adrop off their equipment, half class that tells you how to the practice/warm-up to do everything and runs room or to the actual peryou through it.” formance, and then to the Brintnall said his voluncritique room if they are teer experience began when being critiqued.” someone in his living group Ball said some of the asked for help. basic volunteers are “run“They put me in charge ners” who guide students to of it, and I was in charge of and from rooms and stage running around, getting guys managers who make sure to that site,” Brintnall said. the stages get set up. “Well, me being a freshman “It’s not the first year in this living group, it wasn’t I’ve volunteered for Lionel exactly the easiest thing Hampton,” Ball said. “In the to do, but I got some help past I just went to the site from the upper-classmen, and volunteered, and was
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You’re helping your school, you’re helping your community — it’s bigger than yourself.”
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Veronica Hennessey teaches a group of dancers the basic move of the merengue, which is a Latin dance. The dance clinic took place in the Physical Education Building Feb. 26, 2011 afternoon as part of the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. essentially that runner.” If students are interested in volunteering, Ball said get involved and the sooner the better. “I would definitely jump on it early enough,” Ball said. “When they send out those emails wanting volunteers, look to see what kind of sites you’re interested in.” Samantha Flaherty, UI junior, works in the Lionel Hampton office with students who want to volunteer for the festival. “I am the volunteer coordinator’s intern, so basically I do the paperwork,” Flaherty said. “We went around to
all the Greek houses and handed out flyers. We gave them information to sign up, because most of them sign up every year.” Even though volunteering can be tiring, Flaherty said students shouldn’t underestimate the importance of donating their time. “Just keep a positive attitude, because I know the days can be long, but it’s a really good program for the university,” Flaherty said. “It gets our name out there, and it’s really important to the community too.” Jared Montgomery can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu
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Stephen “Doc” Kupka of Tower Of Power perfoms at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas. The band will perform during the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival Saturday in the Kibbie Dome.
Tower of Power: Keeping the funk alive dylan brown argonaut For all those who want to know what happened to the funk, Tower of Power has kept things bumping for the past 43 years and tenor saxophone man Emilio Castillo said they plan on keeping the funk alive until they drop. The Oakland-based band will bring its unique brand of “urban soul” to the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival stage Saturday. Castillo, the de facto leader of the 10-man band, said the secret behind the decades of sold-out shows worldwide is soul power. “You can have all the musicianship in the world,” Castillo said. “But you gotta have soul.” Tower of Power’s legendary horn section is famous for playing some of the tightest grooves on the planet. Combine that with a “world-class” rhythm section and vocalist, and
Castillo said Tower of Power is the same relentlessly frenetic show it was in 1970. Castillo promised to be a wake-up call for Moscow jazz fans and to jump them out of their seats in this era of sleepy, smooth jazz. Castillo and Stephen “Doc” Kupka founded the band in 1968, after Kupka’s signature baritone saxophone sound impressed Castillo during an audition at his house. The band has always worked tirelessly to be the tightest thing around, Castillo said. “We always rehearsed — sometimes five days a week,” Castillo said. “We had a day off, then back to it. (Now) we just know how to be tight — it’s ingrained.” The hard work paid off with notable hits “What is Hip” and “You’re Still A Young Man” that made the group a commercial success in the 1970s. The band has evolved in the decades since. Some 60 different musicians
have played with the group, including Saturday Night Live band-leader Lenny Pickett. Castillo, Kupka, drummer David Garibaldi and bassist “Rocco” Prestia, are the only four left from the original group. Tower of Power refuses to let changes affect, which is a little easier considering, musicians from all around line up for a chance at performing with Tower. “It looks good on the resume if you spend time with Tower of Power,” Castillo said. Castillo said Tower of Power has had some “lean times.” Many in the group lived hard — the booze and drugs that ruin so many music careers took their toll. Tower of Power also went without a record contract for a stretch of nearly a decade, relying exclusively on the endless touring. Castillo turned things around and got clean in 1988, and Doc followed suit the next year. “We started to live right,” Castillo said.
“It’s been a lot easier when we’re sober.” Tower of Power got a new contract soon after, but Castillo said even in the hard times, the group was never undermined. “I can say unequivocally we are all good friends,” he said. “The gig is a small part of the day, we hire a high caliber person with principles of life.” Fans of Tower of Power will tell you that it is all about the live show. The energy and performance style honed by the years on the road mean fans at this year’s Jazz Festival, Castillo said, are in for a true Tower experience. Their time atop the charts may be long gone, Castillo said, but Tower has refused to compromise. “We make the music that pleases us,” Castillo said. Something about 43 years of sold-out shows hints that Tower of Power continues to please audiences worldwide. Dylan Brown can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu.
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During the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, jazz music is everywhere — especially within the halls of Moscow High School. Moscow High jazz choir instructor Joel Pals grew up with the jazz festival in his backyard, which served as inspiration in his pursuit of music. “I enjoyed participating in instrumental music classes in junior high and high school,” Pals said. “My teachers ... inspired me to teach music.” Pals has had the chance to experience the 45-year-old tradition of the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival in a myriad of ways: As a University of Idaho student, festival volunteer, performer, and now, director. “My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Idaho,” Pals said. “I (also) have a Master of Music in performance from the UI.” His love of education and music were also inspired by educators at UI. “At the UI, Dan Bukvich, Bob Mc-
Curdy and Al Gemberling were my praised us for singing so well at the mentors in the study of jazz,” Pals said. concert ... talk about encouragement.” “(They were all) models for me in how Pals has been teaching music at Mosto teach jazz style.” cow High and Junior High Schools for Main figures associated with the jazz five years, but has taught at the high festival also influenced school and junior high Pals future within the levels for 17 years total. world of music educaEven with this experiThe Moscow High ence, Pals said some tion. Lionel Hampton and Lynn J. “Doc” SkinJazz Choir will be aspects of preparing for ner, one of the festifestival still take performing at 10:20 the val’s former executive much longer than others. a.m. Friday at the directors, left him with “Deciding on songs memories of one particand arranging them or LDS Stake 1 site on ular performance on the adapting existing arWarbonnet Drive. main stage. rangements takes a lot “One of my fondest of time,” Pals said. “It is memories of the Jazz worth it in a rehearsal ... Festival is ‘Hamp’ passing the microbecause the students will learn faster if phone to me and some of my friends it is a good fit for their abilities.” during one of the evening concerts During the festival, nearly every stage in the Kibbie Dome,” Pals said. “He UI has to offer is filled with jazz bands,
ensembles, solo performers, jazz choirs the adjudicators clicks one finger down Great Falls High School, on the other and workshops and instrumental clinics on a small stopwatch as members of the hand, offers participation in the jazz led by musicians and Blue Notes emerge ensemble as a daily class, which is an education profesinto the light. opportunity for Molyneaux to meet “One of my fondest sionals. The Jazz Fes“The programs in with her students regularly and coach memories of the Jazz tival is a convenient the bigger cities are them in the language of jazz. When it Festival is ‘Hamp’ passing opportunity for Mosamazing. Very incomes time to prepare the class for cow High and Junior spiring,” said Dusty their Jazz Fest performance, the limthe microphone to me High students to Molyneaux, director ited class-time is used to its utmost and some of my friends learn and perform. of bands in Great potential. during one of the evening “Students have Falls, Mont.. “We are lucky that our jazz band concerts in the Kibbie the opportunity Molyneaux and meets as a class during the day that to hear jazz year the Great Falls High the kids get credit for,” Molyneaux Dome. He praised us for round thanks to the School jazz ensemsaid. “So we have been rehearsing singing so well at the University of Idaho ble, the Blue Notes, every day since mid January for this concert ... talk about ensembles,” Pals make the 416-mile performance.” said. “I love seeing trip from Great Falls Aside from crossing three mountain encouragement.” the students grow to Moscow to compasses in wintry conditions, acquirthrough their expepete in the Lionel ing a budget to fund the trip is one Joel Pals, riences in perforHampton Internaof the hardest aspects of traveling to Moscow High jazz choir instructor mance, critique time tional Jazz Festival as Moscow. Molyneaux and her students with the festival an all-around learnworked hard to find the resources to judge and in workshops and clinics that ing experience. get to Jazz Fest. they see during the day.” “It’s worth it, whether the group is “Raising the money is (a) huge (part Many directors will turn the festival fundraising, selecting songs or putting of it),” Molyneaux said. “We do a masweekend into a series of learning experi- practice hours into presive fruit sale every year ences, offering students a wide range of festival rehearsal,” Molyto earn money to travel educational opportunities. neaux said. with for all the bands.” “We attend one or two workshops Moscow’s population When traveling long The GFHS Blue as a group, three to five performances is small in comparison distances on limited Notes will be by other schools ... then we attend the to other significant “jazz budgets, high schools performing at 1 Young Artist Concert together in the Kib- capitol cities,” such as often find innovative bie Dome,” Pals said. “My students have New Orleans and New ways to cut expenses. p.m. Saturday in to complete an evaluation form for the York, but the Lionel “We travel with the the Student Union groups we observe.” Hampton International other high school in Building ballroom town to try and share Jazz Festival was awarded a National Medal of some of the costs,” MoArts in 2007 — the most lyneaux said. “(To try to) prestigious arts award keep it affordable for Seventeen empty chairs wait for the in the nation. both programs.” band to file onstage, and cast shadows Some jazz bands in the region are Chloe Rambo can be reached at on the floor from the glare of the spotbased on an “extra-curricular” forarg-arts@uidaho.edu light above. The room goes silent. One of mat and meet outside of class hours.
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Experience jazz, experience life joanna wilson argonaut Jazz is rooted in the human experience. It’s a conversation. It’s a beat. It’s all American. “It’s about going on a date with your girl, or having that first dance, or trying to say I love you in a way that doesn’t completely embarrass yourself,” Brad Howey said. “That’s wrapped up in jazz.” Howey taught jazz for 11 years in Alaska before coming to the University of Idaho to earn a doctorate in education. While in Alaska, he even started his own jazz festival. Amazing technique, attitude and ability can come through in a good jazz performance, he said. “But underneath all that, you hear dances, and you hear romance, and you hear love songs,” Howey said. “That’s part of the tradition of jazz. Where it began, and where it continues to go.” Howey said jazz songs touch on those familiar moments. “Sad is still sad, the blues are still the blues,” Howey said. “When you wake up in the morning after pulling an all nighter, or that assignment didn’t come out the way you want, or your funding — your bills are stacking up, and you just can’t get a grip on life — those are the blues.”
Jazz is a conversation Sarah Dramstad, UI instrumental performance senior, said jazz is best defined by musical improvisation. “Improvisation is essentially onthe-spot composition,” Dramstad said. “Because of that, you can really do whatever you want and it can be right.” Howey said improvisation comes from skill, hard work and an understanding of the music. “Improvisation is also about the community on the stage,” Howey said. “So one musician signals to another, or a certain direction that a musician wants to go, those concerts maybe have one rehearsal, maybe none.” Howey said the concert is an improvisation. “The musicians don’t even know what’s going to happen,” Howey said. “In a way, we’re all a part of that composition that happens in that moment. We’re all a part of that art experience.” The music in a jazz concert is unique to the time and place, and may never be replicated, he said.
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Sarah Dramstad, junior in saxophone performance and music composition, plays a tune outside the Lionel Hampton School of Music Monday. Dramstad said she started playing jazz in middle school. Dramstad said jazz allows the musician to play in a tight-knit ensemble. “It’s also an opportunity for a person to express individual musical desires,” Dramstad said. “People’s thoughts — expressions.” A democracy where the ensemble plays the melody and individuals can play solos, Dramstad said. “It gives each musician an opportunity to express something,” Dramstad said. “And then they go back to playing together, so it’s (a) really democratic art form that allows each musician to have their own say. But then you come back together and you finish the tune together.” Dramstad said when improvising, the musician works with sets of notes and chords that go together. “You understand the harmonies, and you spontaneously create the melody that goes well with them, with the harmony,” Dramstad said. “Some people are really thematic, and take one little idea and start to repeat it.” Others play with longer phrases and
use different vocabulary, Dramstad said.
Jazz is a beat Vern Sielert, director of jazz studies with the Lionel Hampton School of Music, said the rhythmic element, the groove, in jazz is what connects the music. “That can be a lot of different things in jazz,” Sielert said. “That can be swing style, it can be Latin jazz, it can be jazz that is combined with rock elements. But the most important thing is the groove, because it started out as dance music.” Jazz is a combination of elements from Africa, Europe and South America, Sielert said. “(It) all sort of melded together in the Southern United States around New Orleans, and spread across this country that way,” Sielert said. “It’s gone through a lot of different relationships with different kinds of music. With Latin dance, there’s combining jazz with classical music, or country and rock’n’roll.” Sielert said the music and dance
of jazz were a symbiotic relationship contributing to each other as the genre grew. “Swing dancing and swing music, that was a part of jazz, that was huge,” Sielert said. “That was fueled by the dancers.”
Jazz is American Howey said modern rock music grew out of jazz. “You can hear some of the (Rolling) Stones in there, you can hear some of the – (insert) whatever great rock and roll (name) that you’d like to,” Howey said. “It’s in there, because their inspiration came from the jazz musician’s approach to music, that was uniquely different than anything that came before.” Sielert said jazz is the only art form that developed in the U.S. “We could use the term American classical music,” Sielert said. “It seems like it would be great if students knew more about this music. They may not think they like jazz, but maybe take a chance and go to a concert.”
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events calendar wednesday
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The Responsibility of an Artist Anat Cohen Borah
1:30-2:30 p.m. Vocal Improvisation: Letting Rhythm Lead the Way Rosana Eckert Borah Jazz Culture and Swing Rhythm Eli Yamin ABA
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Latin Dance: Have Some Salsa Fun Martin Wellness Center in GMC
“Swing Out, Blow Out” SUB ballroom Paquito D’Rivera and Anat Cohen with the All-Star Quartet featuring Josh Nelson, Ben Williams, Graham Dechter and Kevin Kanner and the Lionel Hampton School of Music Jazz Band 1
4-5 p.m. Smooth Ballroom: American Foxtrot Martin Wellness Center in GMC
5-6 p.m. Jazz to Classical and Back Again Paquito D’Rivera with Alex Brown SUB ballroom
locations key SUB: Student Union Building,
ABA: Administration Building Auditorium, 851 Campus Drive
GMC: Gritman Medical Center, 700 South Main Street
KPAC: Kenworthy Performing
PEB: Physical Education Building, 1060 Rayburn St.
LDSI: The Church of Jesus
HPH: Haddock Performance Hall in the Lionel Hampton School of Music, 1010 Blake Ave.
BOARH: Borah Theatre in the SUB, 709 Deakin Ave., 2nd floor
709 Deakin Ave., 2nd floor
Arts Centre, 508 South Main St.
Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute, 902 Deakin Ave.
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thursday 9:30-10:30 a.m. Roots of Swing Swing Devils PEB 212
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Move it Diane Walker PEB 212
Free Improvising, A Great Place to Start Eli Yamin Borah
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Learning from the Jazz Master Corey Christiansen Kiva Theater
Ray Brown: Memvories and Magic Karriem Riggins and Larry Fuller SUB ballroom
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Turner-Jones Connection and “The Matt Montgomery Duo” (page 9) perform at Bucer’s Coffeehouse Pub and The Red Door Restaurant Saturday, Feb. 25, as part of “Late Night Jams” in the 2011 Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, where professionals and hobbyists alike volunteer to be the night’s entertainment at participating coffee shops and restaurants.
PEB 110 Singing Ballads Sara Gazerk accompanied by Josh Nelson HPH
Telling your Story: Solo Piano Technique and Methods Josh Nelson HPH
Swing Dance Swing Devils PEB 110
Swing Dance Swing Devils PEB 110
Broadway Jazz Greg Halloran PEB 212
10:30 11:30 a.m. Understanding Through Stories and Songs with Bob Athayde Blind Boys of Alabama SUB ballroom Steppin Mary Heller PEB 212
11 a.m.-12 p.m. Hip Hop Christine Maxwell PEB 110
11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Mentors in my life Ira Nepus Borah Beginning Jazz Improvisation for Elementary and Middle School Students Sherry Luchette Kiva Theater
12:30-1:30 p.m.
1-2 p.m. Role of Guitar in the Jazz Band and Small Combo Corey Christiansen Borah Jazz Culture and Swing Rhythm Eli Yamin Kiva Theater Leading a New Beneration Paquito D’Rivera HPH Hip Hop Belle Baggs PEB 110
2:30-3:30 p.m. Beginning Jazz Improvisation for Elementary and Middle School Students Sherry Luchette Borah The Essence of Jazz Performance Style from Louis Armstrong to Paul McCartney Ira Nepus Kiva Theater Seriously Fun Matt Wilson Arts and Crafts ABA Rhythmical Jazz Belle Baggs PEB 212
4:30 Young Artist Concerts Kibbie Dome
6:30 Hamp’s Club 6:30 p.m. Kibbie Dome
7:30 and 9 p.m. Ray Brown Tribute featuring John Clayton, Larry Fuller and Karriem Riggins SUB ballroom
8 and 9:30 p.m.
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Sara Gazarek and Carmen Bradford with Rickey Woodard and the All-Star Quartet HPH
Rhythm Tap Fawn Youngdahl and Sara Skinner PEB 212
8:30 and 10:00 p.m.
2-3 p.m. Bollywood BeMoved Mary Heller
Matt Wilson’s Art and Crafts featuring Terell Stafford, Larry Goldings and Martin Wind ABA
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friday 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.
Jon Harnum Kiva Theater
Doc Skinner Kiva Theater
Sing and Swing Carmen Bradford Borah Theater in the SUB
Hip Hop Christine Maxwell PEB 110
Roots of Swing Swing Devils PEB 212
11 a.m.3:30 p.m.
1-2 p.m.
9:30-10:30 a.m. The Essence of Jazz from Louis Armstrong to Paul McCartney Ira Nepus Kiva Theater Musical Explorations Ricky Woodard Nuart Theatre Steppin Mary Heller PEB 212
10-11 a.m. Drumming Basics to Advanced Tech Kevin Kanner KPAC Singing with Piano Solo Sara Gazerak and Larry Goldings ABA Elements of Giving a Great Performance Jon Pugh LDSI Swing Dance Swing Devils PEB 110
10:30-11:30 a.m. Move it! Diane Walker PEB 212
11 a.m.-12 p.m. Practice like a Pro
Jazz and Drama: Building Jazz Communities Worldwide Eli Yamin Nuart Theatre
11:30 – 12:30 The Best Musical Advice Rosana Eckert Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre Soul Explosion Ike Stubblefield Trio ABA Learning from the Masters Corey Christiansen LDSI A Sound Garden for Jazz/Jazzy Drawing/ Acoustics Tour Art and Architecture Faculty Ridenbaugh Hall Broadway jazz Greg Halloran PEB 212
12-1 p.m. Swing dance Swing Devils PEB 110
12:30-1:30 p.m. I Remember Hamp: His Life and Music
Improv Basics Using only a Few Notes Bob Athayde and Ira Nepus KPAC Playing Duets and Comping Josh Nelson and Graham Dechter ABA Elements of Giving a Great Performance Jon Pugh LDSI Hip Hop Belle Bags PEB 110
1:30-3:30 p.m. Sing and Swing Carmen Bradford Borah Theater in the SUB
Mark Neilsen Renfrew Hall, Room 125
2-3 p.m. Body Drumming Bob Stoloff Kiva Theater Bollywood BeMoved Mary Heller PEB 110
2:30-3:30 p.m. Student Ensemble on Stage Bob Athayde KPAC Patterns for Improv Corey Christiansen ABA Practice like a Pro Jon Harnum LDSI
4 p.m. Lionel Hampton School of Music Jazz Choir 1 Kibbie Dome
4:30
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Young Artist Concerts Kibbie Dome
Rhythm Tap Fawn Youngdahl and Sara Skinner PEB 212
7:30 p.m.
1:45
8:30 p.m.
Making Waves with Music Christine Berven and Marty Ytreberg Renfrew Hall, Room 125
2-2:30 p.m. Math and the Musical Scale
Hamp’s Club Kibbie Dome
“Soul Explosion” Blind Boys of Alabama Ike Stubblefield Jazz Trio with special guests Jeff Clayton, Wycliffe Gordon, James Morrison and Rickey Woodard Kibbie Dome
On behalf of the University of Idaho’s Faculty, Staff and Students
Welcome!
Enjoy the 2012 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival “World-class music at Idaho’s premiere Jazz Event — see you there!” M. Duane Nellis, President
February 2012
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saturday Patterns for Improve — Do a Lot with a Little Corey Christiansen Kiva Theater
Body Drumming Bob Stoloff Kiva Theater
Recording Techniques and Songwriting Ike Stubblefield KPAC
Introducing a Jazz Superhero: The Allower Matt Wilson Nuart Theatre Sing it First! Wycliffe Gordon KPAC African Roots Music Sesitshaya Marimba Band First United Methodist Church West African Dance Roots Christine Maxwell PEB 110
10:30-11:30 Making Waves with Music Christine Berven and Marty Ytreberg Renfrew, Room 125 Swing Dance Swing Devils PEB 212
11 a.m. 12 p.m. Elementary Jazz Circulation: The Flying Jazz Kittens, Vol. 1 and 2 Sherry Luchette LDSI
Roots of Swing Swing Devils PEB 212
11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Jazz and Drama: Building Jazz Communities Worldwide Presentation Eli Yamin Nuart Theatre
Young Artist Concert Kibbie Dome
1:30 2:30 p.m.
7:30
Finding your Own Voice Rosana Eckert First United Methodist Church Math and the Musical Scale Mark Neilson Renfrew Hall 125
2-3 p.m. Jazz Trumpet 101 Vern Sielert LDSI
12-1 p.m. I Remember Hamp: His Life and Music Doc Skinner First United Methodist Church
Jazz Trombone Slide and Swing Al Gemberling Kiva Theater
Latin Dance/Salsa Patrick Barnes PEB 110
Tips, Tricks and Song! All Star Rhythm Section Nuart Theatre
12:30 1:30 p.m.
Practice! Practice! Practice! Corey Christiansen KPAC
1-2 p.m.
11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
My Musical Journey Ben Williams Borah
Student eEsembles on Stage, Sitka Alaska Middle School Bob Athayde
Vocal Percussion Bob Stoloff Kiva Theater
Hamp’s Club Kibbie Dome
8:30 p.m. “Urban Urges” Lionel Hampton Youth Jazz Orchestra with Special Guests Carmen Bradford, James Morrison and Hendrik Meurkens The Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band Tower of Power
3-4 p.m. Voice Improvisation: Letting Rhythm Lead the Way Rosana Eckert First United Methodist Church
PRESENTS
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by, for, about Women ™
THURSDAY, MARCH 8 KENWORTHY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
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508 S. MAIN STREET, MOSCOW 6:30 PM Pre-Show Reception ($12)
Includes admission to the film festival, one free raffle ticket, and appetizers provided by Gnosh.
7:30 PM Showtime! (Films only - $6) During a short 15 minute intermission there will be a drawing for raffle prizes and a no-host bar. Brought to you by:
4:00 Lionel Hampton School
To see photos from and learn more about various workshops and concerts during the week subscribe to @uiargonaut and follow #hampjazz
THE UNIVERSIT Y OF IDAHO WOMEN’S CENTER
2:30-3:30 p.m. Using Smart Music Import and Slow Down for Practice Bob Athayde Borah
Saxophone Fundamentals Vanessa Sielert LDSI
4:30
Latin Dance/Merengue Patrick Barnes PEB 110
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PHONE MORE INFO
Benefiting:
UI Women’s Center, 109 Mem Gym or BookPeople of Moscow 208.885.6616 www.uidaho.edu/womenscenter/lunafest Supported by:
FINE ARTS GRANT Whole Nutrition for Women ®
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Hip Hop Christine Maxwell PEB 110
A Sound Garden for Jazz/ Jazzy Drawing/Acoustics Tour Art and Architecture faculty Ridenbaugh Hall
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of Music Jazz Band 1 Kibbie Dome
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Playing as One Tower of Power’s Adolofo Acosta and Torn Politzer Borah
Master Showman and his Secrets to Success James Morrison KPAC
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10-11 a.m.