Jon Faddis

Jon Faddis is a trumpeter, conductor, composer, bandleader, and educator whose work connects big-band leadership, orchestral projects, and a leader catalog.

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Career Overview

About Jon Faddis

SUNY Purchase traces Faddis from Oakland and early trumpet study through Lionel Hampton's band and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, where he became lead trumpeter. The faculty biography then follows his New York studio work, recordings with Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie, and mid-1980s turn toward his own recording career.[1]

Faddis's work as a conductor and bandleader includes the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Dizzy Gillespie 70th Birthday Big Band, and the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra of New York. His leader catalog includes Into the Faddisphere, Hornucopia, Remembrances, and Teranga, while Schilke documents the same career from the perspective of his trumpet practice and education work.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Founder, conductor, trumpeter, and composer

Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra of New York

Purchase identifies Faddis's orchestra as a vehicle for his large-ensemble leadership and original writing.[1]

Music director and conductor

Carnegie Hall Jazz Band

The faculty biography documents Faddis's decade as music director of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and its concert and commissioning activity.[1]

Trumpeter, protégé, and big-band leader

Dizzy Gillespie ensembles

Purchase and Schilke connect Faddis's long relationship with Gillespie to the 70th Birthday Big Band and later Gillespie-centered orchestral work.[1][2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

1989 · Epic

Into the Faddisphere

Leader and trumpeter

Purchase includes the album among the leader recordings that established Faddis's solo catalog in the late 1980s.[1]

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1991 · Epic

Hornucopia

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

The faculty discography identifies Hornucopia as a leader recording that includes Faddis compositions.[1]

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1998 · Chesky Records

Remembrances

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Faddis's authorized Bandcamp page streams the ten-track album, while Purchase documents its place in his leader and composition catalog.[1][3]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

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Remembrances

Stream the complete ten-track Chesky leader recording through Faddis's authorized Bandcamp page.

SFJAZZ performance

Watch the Jon Faddis Quartet perform Tin Tin Deo in an official SFJAZZ concert video.

Smoke Jazz Club · New York

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

[1] Faculty biography, ensembles, compositions, and discography
SUNY Purchase
[2] Trumpet artist and educator biography
Schilke Music
[3] Remembrances authorized album stream
Jon Faddis and Chesky Records