[Trombone-l] John Fedchock's Arranging Prowess WAS Trombones with Bert Kaempfert

[Daryl Burch]

"Fedchock gooooooooooooood!!!!"

He's got an arrangement of "Flintstoned" that's pretty flippin'  
stellar and a total b##$%@#$ to read ...the first time. After that,  
the original theme song sounds just not right.

Anybody that digs big band, should pick up anything he did for  
Woody's band or any of his New York Big Band stuff. You will HIGHLY  
dig it!

And should you have the fortune of seeing him in a trio or small  
group environment, he's one-heckuva soloist, too.

(I got to take a couple lessons with him in the late '80s when he'd  
come to the Blue Wisp for a stint. Good guy. Great lessons!)

....just my $0.02

Cheers!
-D-
www.radionoise.com <- Rock star by night
www.burchinteractive.com <- Tech-nerd by day #;-)



On Nov 1, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Wayne Dyess wrote:

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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