John Fedchock NY Sextet
Love at the Red Sea Jazz Festival
Capri Records
2010
Trombonist John Fedchock leads his New York Sextet through a sextet of original compositions and standards at the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat, Israel. Fedchock promotes his steady brand of hard bop with a Jazz Messengers front, circa Curtis Fuller. Fedchock's 'bone chops are round and intact as he blows his way through his four originals.
The "two standards" are Tom Harrell's introspective "Moon Alley," given a littlebig band sound with the three horn front and Ellington's "Caravan," which Fedchock arranges as a complex island piece, anxious and exciting. Pianist Allen Farnham battens down the hatches for the horns as they take flight. A hot set of listenable bop served up in the warm Middle Eastern climes.
