Jazz Articles about Chris Tedesco

About Chris Tedesco

Album Review

Chris Tedesco: Living The Dream

Read "Living The Dream" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 15, 2010

After two decades in Los Angeles making a living from the movie industry, performing television theme songs, and making radio and TV commercial jingles, trumpeter Chris Tedesco unveils his first jazz album as leader completing a musical journey begun in high school. While Tedesco plays many styles of music--an obvious requirement for musicians in the movie/TV industry--jazz has always had a special draw for the trumpeter in a career that has in his words, “surpassed [his] wildest musical expectations," leading ...

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Album Review

Chris Tedesco: Living the Dream

Read "Living the Dream" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 6, 2010

In Living the Dream Los Angeles-based trumpeter/contractor/producer Chris Tedesco proves that he is a consummate multi-tasker. He leads his L.A. Jazz Big Band and Orchestra admirably, contracted the sessions, arranged a selection, composed four originals, engineered, edited, and produced the CD. The result of this array of endeavors is a slick, swinging, throwback salute to hip, straight-ahead big band jazz in the tradition of the great Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Orchestra. This ten-tune disc offers ...