JOE FIEDLER
Genres: Eclectic Fusion, Classic Fusion, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Avant-Garde Jazz • United States

Influenced by two older cousins who both played trumpet, trombonist/composer Joe Fiedler, born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, and based in NYC since 1993, desperately wanted to become a trumpet player himself, but was instead given a trombone by his fourth grade music teacher who saw Fiedler and the trombone as a good match. The young, shy musician accepted the "arranged marriage", and the fourth grade music teacher has since been proven prophetic. Fiedler and the trombone finding each other coincided with the young musician falling under the abiding influence of two albums from his father's collection, The Cannonball Adderley Sextet-Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, and Oscar Peterson's Night Train. After a period of time at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, with the trombone on the back burner, Fiedler decided to move back home and transferred to the University of Pittsburgh, where he soon joined the University's jazz band. "Once my flame was relit, read more...