Oscar Peterson & Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis was a sophomore among Ph.Ds in the 1970s when Oscar Peterson teamed up with trumpet players on five duo albums for Pablo. Since his teens, the 21-year-old San Franciscan was known to the trumpet cognoscenti as an astonishing technician and a passionate follower of Dizzy Gillespie. To be chosen for a series whose other trumpeters were Gillespie, Clark Terry, Harry Edison, and Roy Eldridge was recognition not of Faddis's potential but of his accomplishment. His allegiance to Gillespi… MORE
