Jazz Festival Diary #5: Elementary school jazz band director Robert Bickford (MA ’11)
Robert Bickford and the mighty Buckman Heights Elementary School Jazz Band at XRIJF 2016 The 2016 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) is running until July 2. Among the hundreds of musicians gathering for this major musical event are many Eastman faculty members, alumni, and students. Free-lance writer Dan Gross is blogging regularly during this…