[Trombone-l] Trombones with Bert Kaempfert
Wayne Dyess
texastbone at gt.rr.com
Sat Nov 1 09:57:25 CDT 2008
Yep. Fedchock. Senior moment. Sorry.
wD
On Nov 1, 2008, at 2:37 AM, George Carr wrote:
> No, I don't think so. Jiggs played the lead book of the Kenton band
> for about a year 1963-64. A few years later, he moved to Europe and
> was not associated with any US big bands after that, except as an
> occasional guest soloist.
>
> You might be thinking of John Fedchock, who was musical director for
> Woody during the mid-1980s, before settling in NYC as a session player
> and leader of his own big band. But he did not, to my knowledge, run
> the Woody Herman ghost band at any time after Woody's death.
>
> George
Yep. My confusion is the time I saw Fedchock directing the WH band at
an IAJE convention.
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