Jon Faddis News

Fame doesn't matter to Nnenna Freelon when it comes to the voices she most admires.

Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis , set very much in the Gillespie mould and at the time a guest artiste in his band, were ready with their trumpets to play their concert at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

The legacy of Dizzy Gillespie 's pioneering bebop big band could not be served better than by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, the successor to the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band that featured Jon Faddis.

It began with Archie McBride, the heavyweight contender Budd Schulberg managed almost sixty years ago, tolling the final 10-count, and ended with a solo from the great jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis while behind him on the stage, a slide show provided vignettes depicting Budd Schulberg's remarkable 95-year life.

The cast of the long-running Broadway hit "Chicago," will be among the headliners at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine's annual awards presentation, cocktail reception, and silent auction to be held at Beth Israel Medical Center's Phillips Ambulatory Care Center Nerken Family Atrium on Tuesday, September 22, 6 to 9 pm.

The Deer Head Inn presents the Bobby Avey Jazz Quartet from 7 to 11 p.m. today. Making up the quartet are Avey on piano, Aidan Carroll on bass, Kenny Warren on trumpet and Collin Stranahan on drums.

Just tell us why you deserve two free tickets to see Jon Faddis and The Majesty of the Trumpet and the Dave Holland Octet, on Sun., Sept.

The 57th Street Art Fair, now in its 62nd year, is the oldest juried art fair in the Midwest, and still alcohol-free and family-friendly. At the fair, located at 57th between Kenwood and Kimbark, more than 250 artists will show and sell works of glass, leather, photography, print-making, painting, sculpture, wood, ceramics and fiber from 11 a.m. to ...