An interview with Jon Faddis
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2025
- American trumpeter Jon Faddis is one of the highlights of JazzAscona 2011. Born in California in 1953, he started playing music at the age of eight, inspired by a performance by the great Louis Armstrong, which was broadcasted on TV. After his first steps in the world of music, Faddis met trumpet icon "Dizzy" Gillespie, who, together with Stan Kenton's trumpeter Bill Catalano, believed in Faddis' talent when he was still a young promising musician.
After several appearances on pop albums, in the 1970s and 1980s Faddis begun his solo career, which led him to become, according to critics, one of the best trumpeters ever. The Californian artist reached this status thanks to his technique and to his lungs' breath, which allows him to produce impressive high-pitched tones that, in time, have become his trademark.
Farris' career took a turning-point when, beside composition and performance, he started directing. Among the orchestras he conducted are the Grammy Award winning United Nation Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie 70th Birthday Big Band, the Carnegie Jazz Band (1992-2002), and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble.
JazzAscona 2011 will be celebrating the centennial of the birth of Roy Eldridge, the great trumpeter who is ranked right next to Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie for his musical skills and success. The honor of paying homage to the illustrious trumpeter will go to Jon Faddis, more than once nominated for the Grammy Awards.
world class in every way top trumpet top man I love the man.many thanks.
I don’t hear enough of Mr Faddis. I don’t play trumpet, but the few times I’ve heard Mr Faddis on KCSM, I’ve enjoyed his sound. I will have to research what is available and listen to more of his art.
Faddis is also one of my heroes next to Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, and now I read he's from HERE in California? Wow.......when he was busy making "Up in the FAddisphere" I was working for a bus company providing transport from the Disneyland and Grand hotels to the airports. I was a ticket agent and often brought my horn into the ticket booth to practice whatever routine items I'd missed at home....on a mute of course. Wouldn't loved lessons from this talented performer not just about high notes but about the jazz ideas. Would love to meet Mr. Faddis some day.
what a gentleman. what a scholar, what a musician! The real Boss!
he came to my school
@gabrtrumpet He talks about miles at the end.
@yourbrassinstructor Trust me man he's definitely not racist. When I first met him it was at a dinner with a jazz band that was entirely white and he was havin a ball with them all. Who knows why de didn't name them. He has a very specific style that a lot of the players you named, as amazing as they are, don't really fall into so maybe he wasn't heavily influenced by them. Again, who knows. Either way, he's a great guy as long as you can deal with an extremely dry sense of humor haha
madlibs uncle
Nothing on Miles Davis...why?
@yourbrassinstructor I really hope you're kidding. He isn't a racist or anything like that at all. He's open to anything man. I know him personally, actually I talked to him earlier tonight, so I'm not talking out of my rear end here. Not to mention jazz was a predominantly black art form back in the time frame he's referring to. By the way, Bix Beiderbecke was white.
You need to chill out man. I had the honor of working with Jon for a week a few years ago and he is the farthest thing from a racist in the world. I'm a half Asian, half white trumpet player and he was incredibly supportive of me and my music and even let me trade with him on almost every tune we played the night of the concert. Why get defensive about it? I'm not black but I have absolutely NO problem with the fact that jazz is first and foremost a black music.
... and he look to the American tourist, and says: "no!" :-)
JazzAscona. What is the fun except for the picture in My head?
I didn't get the "joke"
Kurt is well known troll.
He forgot -Miles- and Chet.
why would he ommit miles when listing all those great trumpet players?
I'm sure it wasn't on purpose.
what happened to your lips?
he used method arm-strong.
For me Jon Faddis you are the best
Bix was not black
No they're not!! Bix Beiderbecke's not black!! (1:37)
All the trumpet players he listed were all black.
Not true. He listed Bix and Red Rodney