Music is a gift, but faith should always come first, said Jim Bruce, one of the drummers for the Inland Northwest-based band Black Happy. Black Happy, which started in Coeur d’Alene around 1990 and ...
Black Happy trombonist Jay Carkhuff doesn't remember a lot about the band's early days. But he remembers the very, very beginning, when he and a few other members of the North Idaho College jazz band ...