Jon Faddis returns for Dizzy Gillespie tribute at Chicago Jazz Festival

Few living musicians come closer to capturing the spirit and technical brilliance of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s work than Jon Faddis. Not that anyone has yet matched the combination of high-register velocity, lightness of tone, harmonic ingenuity and melodic grace of Gillespie’s art. But Faddis...

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