Jon Faddis

right what was the information somebody just said sent us about the number of small colleges that are going to go under in the next five to ten years

well they're guessing but yeah it might be coming now that being that being said that's pessimistic now and i'm a pessimist so i love that information But I saw, the first person I heard say this was John Faddis in the fall of 1984, came to do a master class at Juilliard, stood there in the doorway in a leather bodysuit with his gig bag, and I'm like, Okay, John Faddis is cool.

And someone then in 1984 asked him, hey, you know, you were working and you've been working, but we're hearing there are no gigs out there.

You know, what are we all going to do? And he gave the best advice I've ever heard.

He's getting up there.

A guy named John Faddis.

But they are totally uncredited.

And there's some weird, odd stories about why that would be.

[air whooshing] Cameron Johnson is a Los Angeles-based trumpeter, studio musician, and touring artist whose career spans pop, R&B, jazz, gospel, and orchestral music.

He has performed, recorded, or toured with artists including Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder, Miss Lauryn Hill, John Legend, Pharrell, Usher, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and many more A graduate of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Cameron has also performed with jazz greats, including McCoy Tyner, the Count Basie Orchestra, Natalie Cole, Wallace Roney, and Jon Faddis.

His television credits include The Tonight Show, The Voice, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ellen, and the BET Awards, and has appeared on Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated recordings.

Cameron is currently performing with Lenny Kravitz and Robin Thicke.

I don't even know what it was.

It was like a Embassy Band.

It might've been the Embassy Band, where Dizzy had his thing, where he had, you know, Arturo and Jon Faddis and all those guys come up and they played, and I just heard of them play, and I was like, "You can do that on this thing?" [laughs] And I, I had to figure it out, you know?

That's, yeah.

The written part would set up a harmonic scaffold, but on stage, he'd bend the line, stretch the syncopation, and even change the tempo in real time.

It's fascinating to hear that his approach forced other trumpeters, Miles Davis, John Faddis, to rethink their own tone.

They adopted that bent horn aesthetic, but then stripped back some of the bebop complexity to create a more lyrical voice.

That lineage is still audible in modern jazz trumpet playing.

It was fun to get to play a little bit with Chris Potter as we honored Sonny Rollins with our version of The Bridge that night.

Moving on is trumpeter John Faddis and his tribute to Roy Eldridge, one of his idols.

This is from his album called Legacy, features Kenny Barron at the piano, Harold Land saxophone, here's Little Jazz.

Little Jazz . . .