Jazz Articles about John Fedchock

John Fedchock NY Sextet: Live at the Red Sea Jazz Festival

by Woodrow Wilkins
May 20, 2010

It was a performance that began at 1:00 AM in the heat of the desert, but if the sound is any indication, the John Fedchock NY Sextet was cool during its recording of Live at the Red Sea Jazz Festival. Fedchock is a composer, arranger and trombonist who earned a Grammy nomination in 2002 for No Nonsense (Reservoir Music), recorded with his big band. After critical acclaim for Hit the Bricks (Reservoir Music, 2000), he formed the NY ...

John Fedchock NY Sextet: Live at the Red Sea Jazz Festival

by Edward Blanco
May 7, 2010

Whenever another musical project from Grammy-nominated trombonist/arranger John Fedchock is announced, what most likely comes to mind is another large ensemble album with his renowned New York Big Band. Not so this time, as The John Fedchock NY Sextet presents its hard-driving recording debut, from a 2008 live performance at the Red Sea Jazz Festival held in the City of Eilat, Israel--described as an oasis in the southern Negev Desert located on the northern part of the Red Sea. After ...

John Fedchock: Dedicated to Clifford Brown

by Victor L. Schermer
October 14, 2008

On October 30, 31 and November 1, 2008, the University of the Arts will hold an exciting symposium and series of concerts dedicated to the memory of the great trumpeter, Clifford Brown. This interview, with trombonist/big band leader John Fedchock, is the second of two interviews conducted in advance of this event, sponsored by the University of the Arts and the Philadelphia Jazz Heritage Project, the first being with legendary saxophonist Lou Donaldson.At the performance, Fedchock will be ...

John Fedchock New York Big Band: Up & Running

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 28, 2007

C’è molto del suo talento di direttore artistico e di arrangiatore nei clamorosi successi della Woody Herman Orchestra con album quali 50th Anniversary Tour e Woody’s Gold Star. Così come ci sono diversi musicisti di quella formazione nella New York Big Band, protagonista dello scoppiettante Up & Running. Ci riferiamo alla figura di John Fedchock, valente trombonista con il merito di gestire da quasi venti anni una classica big band di sedici elementi, laboratorio importante per giovani talenti e vetrina ...

John Fedchock: Up & Running

by Budd Kopman
June 21, 2007

If there is reader out there old enough to have heard a Swing Era big band live, then you might know what the phrase “full roar" implies. Even on record, the sheer sound of Ellington, Basie, Lunceford, Calloway, Goodman, Shaw or Herman bands can be hard to beat in the goose bump department. Add the John Fedchock New York Big Band to that list. Big bands died primarily because of economics, but also there is an inverse ...

John Fedchock New York Big Band: Up & Running

by Edward Blanco
March 18, 2007

Any discussion pertaining to the state of contemporary big band music must inevitably include the John Fedchock New York Big Band (JFNYBB), for its sound exemplifies what the genre is all about. Together for almost two decades, this is a seasoned ensemble of world-class musicians led by Grammy-nominated trombonist John Fedchock. Up & Running is his latest release of five new originals and five rearranged standards of blowing the house down big band orchestrations.

Grammy-nominated for “Best Instrumental ...

John Fedchock's New York Big Band: No Nonsense

by Jack Bowers
January 2, 2003

By the time this review has been written and (I hope!) read, trombonist John Fedchock will be on the final leg of a seven-month-long world tour that has included stops in Sweden, Norway, South Africa and a number of cities here in the US. Before leaving, Fedchock and his star-laden New York Big Band gathered at Avatar Studios in the Big Apple to record their third album for Reservoir Records, and it's a corker from end to end. ...