Jazz Articles about John Fedchock

About John Fedchock

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La passione di Alban Darche, quarantasettenne tenorsassofonista e compositore bretone, per i grossi organici è nota: ce ne siamo già occupati diverse volte, su queste colonne. Questo suo ultimo lavoro, edito come d'uso su Yolk Music, non fa eccezione: diciotto elementi, big band che più classica non si potrebbe. Per una volta (almeno rispetto al passato) anche in quanto a linguaggio espressivo-espositivo, che si riconnette mani e piedi alla grande tradizione orchestrale, inserendo i soli, che ovviamente non mancano, sopra ...

Album Review

John Fedchock NY Sextet: Into The Shadows

Read "Into The Shadows" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 29, 2020

If a sextet--or a group of any size--is to be measured by the sum of its parts, trombonist John Fedchock's NY Sextet succeeds with flying colors, as it embodies half a dozen of the finest jazz musicians the New York City area has to offer. As we know, however, an inclusive appraisal rests on far more than that, else the musicians could simply set their instruments onstage and await the applause. Yes, musical talent surely provides an ...

Album Review

John Fedchock NY Sextet: Into The Shadows

Read "Into The Shadows" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 19, 2020

Trombonist John Fedchock's fluid slide work, celebrated composing chops and arranger's ingenuity have been put to good use in settings both large and very small in recent years, with a big band set and two live quartet records dropping between 2015 and the present. But rather than choose one of those ensemble formats over the other this time around, he looks to a middle ground with his NY Sextet. Painting with a three-horn frontline and rhythm section, ...

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John Fedchock Quartet: Reminiscence

Read "Reminiscence" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 12, 2019

After recording his quartet's splendid album Fluidity (Summit Records 2015), trombonist John Fedchock realized he had enough unused material in hand from that delightful concert date to consider releasing a second album. The more he listened to the music that hadn't made the cut on Fluidity, the more Fedchock was convinced that a second album not only could but should be produced comprising half a dozen songs that for various reasons weren't included on the earlier recording. “In some instances," ...

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Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival - Woodchopper's Ball: Part 4-4

by Simon Pilbrow
September 25, 2018

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival “Woodchoppers' Ball" Four Points by Sheraton at LAX Los Angeles, CA May 23-27, 2018 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Panel 3: Cousins -Moderated by Ken Borgers Moderated by Ken Borgers, this panel featured Woody Herman alumni from the last phase of Woody's band and life, the 1980s. These were trumpeters Ron Stout and Mark Lewis, saxophonists Mike Brignola, Jerry ...

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John Fedchock New York Big Band: Like It Is

Read "Like It Is" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 17, 2016

Trombonista di valore, arrangiatore negli anni ottanta della Woody Herman Orchestra e bandleader di proprie formazioni, John Fedchock è tra i migliori esponenti del modern mainstream orchestrale, sulla linea Thad Jones. Questo è il quinto album della sua attuale big band, un organico di 16 elementi comprendente alcuni dei migliori professionisti dell'area di New York e personalità del calibro di Gary Smulyan, Scott Wendholt, Bobby Sanabria, Barry Ries o Rich Perry. Le orchestrazioni di Fedchock ...

Album Review

John Fedchock New York Big Band: Like It Is

Read "Like It Is" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
October 25, 2015

Trombonist, composer and arranger John Fedchock's New York Big Band has been in existence for more than twenty years, and the scintillating Like It Is is this group's fifth album. Fedchock, his band and this album have also garnered quite a few of this year's Grammys including “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album," “Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella" ("You And The Night And The Music"), “Best Composing" ("Ten Thirty 30"), and two “Best Improvised Jazz Solo" nominations, one for Fedchock ...