Jim Fishel
WHEN the planning for Ann Arbor Blues Festival kicked off, had you just finished at University of Michigan?
“Showmanship was not their thing. It was musicianship that was important”
JIM FISHEL
Well, I never went to the University of Michigan. My brother transferred to the University of Michigan in 1967. I was graduating high school in 1969. In the summer of 1968, my brother was telling me that he was going to go off to Chicago, walk into the Jazz Record Mart and start talking to Bob Koester, and
