Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra Of New York On JazzSet

Young Jon Faddis , born in 1953, learned every note Dizzy Gillespie ever recorded. Then Faddis found Gillespie and reacquainted the older trumpeter with some of his own best work. Their relationship became a close mentorship in jazz, maybe the closest. Now, Faddis advances the Gillespie style — fast, syncopated, chromatic, teasing, conversing, climbing step by step (sometimes tacking crosswise), racing up and down the hills, having serious fun. In 1992, as Lincoln Center was making a big move into "America's classical music," Carnegie Hall created its own jazz band. Producer George Wein selected Faddis as musical director. New takes on big-band classics were commissioned; top Big Apple players were employed. During 10 years, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band presented more than 40 concerts and premiered works by more than 35 different arrangers and composers. And we were there — almost all the concerts aired on JazzSet, hosted at the time by Branford Marsalis . Almost ten years after the