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Brass Attitude

By Maynard Ferguson

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1999

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Maynard Ferguson: Brass Attitude

by John Sharpe
January 1, 1999

Maynard has scaled back the personnel of his orchestra in recent years but his 10-piece Big Bob Nouveau still packs a hefty punch. They provide plenty of brassy backing and rhythmic muscle for Maynard's lip-busting high note gyrations. Although he has recently shown a certain degree of restraint, the seventy-year-old trumpeter is still capable of uncorking ...

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Brass Attitude

By Maynard Ferguson

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1998
Track listing: Just Friends; Waltz for Nicole; I Love You; Milk of the Moon; Misra-Dhenuka; Knee Deep in Rio; Erica and Sandra; The Lip; Caruso.

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Maynard Ferguson & Big Bop Nouveau: Brass Attitude

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1998

Even after traveling the world over, often in primitive conditions, enduring countless one–night stands in towns large and small, and playing lead trumpet in groups of all shapes and sizes, Maynard Ferguson has never wavered in his love for Jazz or lost his enthusiasm for blowing — an enthusiasm that leaps out and grabs you whenever ...

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Maynard Ferguson: Brass Attitude

by Jim Santella
November 1, 1998

From the session’s opening “Just Friends" to “The Lip," Maynard Ferguson’s powerful high-note chops are in remarkably fine form. From his brassy lower register to his ultra-high leaps, the trumpeter struts and soars before his 10-piece Big Bop Nouveau ensemble. Starting out almost 50 years ago, Ferguson trained in the big bands of Charlie Barnet, Boyd ...