23. Other Major Players
23. Other Major Players s the 21st century began, a small army of jazz "Woody never told us in advance what tunes we would artists from Cleveland were making their marks play," said Fedchock, "but the band would know what A on world jazz stages. Perhaps never before had the upcoming number was after a couple ofwords ofthe so many excellent musicians from Cleveland received little rap he gave the audience." such widespread recognition simultaneously. After touring with the Herman Herd for a couple of In addition to Joe Lovano, Jim Hall and Ken years, Fedchock wrote his first arrangement for the Peplowski, there were many world class musicians from band, a tune called "Fried Buzzard." Cleveland playing and recording. Some traveled In 1985, when Woody was doing a small group tour, extensively; others remained in their hometown and Fedchock returned to Eastman and fmished up his made Cleveland their base of operations. masters. Here is a closer look at some of them: Five months later, he returned to the Herman Orchestra and became Herman's music director and an John Fedchock arranger. He did 16 or 17 charts for the band. Looking In 1974, when Woody back, Fedchock said, "Woody didn't like to do the old Herman and his Orchestra stuff." were in Cleveland for a series In a radio interview, Herman said, "We try to find of performances, they went new material and try to find things that are reasonably to Mayfield High School on new and different. I think that I would have lost interest Wilson Mills Road to playa a long, long time ago if I had been very stylized and concert and conduct a clinic.
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