Results for "Maynard Ferguson"

Jon Hassell: Fourth World and Balancing the North and South of You

by John Kelman
May 4, 2009

He may well be one of the most insidious influences in modern music. Trumpeter, composer and deep thinker Jon Hassell may not have the same name recognition as, say, Miles Davis, but his unmistakable approach to music—he calls it Fourth World music—has affected musicians around the globe, ranging from now friend/co-conspirator Brian Eno, British post-rock crooner ...

Chala Nata

Featuring the music of Maynard Ferguson
Duration: 5:21
May 3, 2009

Bud Shank: A Voice for the Ages

by Jack Bowers
April 29, 2009

I'll always have fond memories of the 2007 Prescott (Arizona) Jazz Summit, as it was the last time I had the great pleasure of seeing and hearing the phenomenal alto saxophonist Bud Shank doing what he did best: enfolding an entire audience in the palm of his hand with a seemingly endless stream of irrepressible notes ...

The Mike Vax Big Band Featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra: Sounds from the Road

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 15, 2009

The traveling autobus--the road to the road--has frequently been used as a symbolic metaphor in movies, books, commercials and, of course, songs of all kinds. Bus travel seems to have an oddly romantic element. In the halcyon days of the barnstorming big bands, bus and car travel were the only direct ways to get to the ...

John Blount Featuring Dave Tucker and the New Big Band: Better Days Ahead

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 9, 2009

The cover art on trumpeter John Blount's Better Days Ahead depicts glorious sunshine. Visually beautiful, it is most appropriate for this CD--which will probably help propel Blount, Dave Tucker and the New Big Band to great things and better days ahead. Blount spent decades as lead trumpeter and featured soloist with the U.S. ...

Odean Pope: A Singular Voice in the Choir

by Elliott Simon
March 11, 2009

Grounded in the Baptist spirituals of his youth followed by a musical upbringing in Philadelphia with the likes of John Coltrane and organist Jimmy Smith as mentors, tenor saxophonist Odean Pope is the bridge between hard bop and free. His contributions to jazz are of major historical significance and through his over ...

The Lost Tapes Volume Two

By Maynard Ferguson

Label: Intima
Released: 2008

Cape May Jazz Festival, November 6-8, 2008

by Ken Franckling
November 23, 2008

Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJNovember 6-8, 2008 For 15 years, the semi-annual Cape May Jazz Festival has been offering jazz-and-blues-filled weekends each April and November, to primarily East Coast jazz fans who flock to New Jersey's southernmost tip more for the music than the shopping, the colorful array of gingerbread Victorian houses, or ...

Performance: A Musical Tribute to Maynard Ferguson at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth on October 17

October 6, 2008

An upcoming concert may be the liveliest tribute possible for late jazz legend Maynard Ferguson and his body of work. Ferguson, who died in 2006, was a jazz trumpet player and bandleader, with more than 50 years of work contained in the 400-piece Maynard Ferguson Music Library, which the University of North Texas acquired in August ...

Jazz Legend Maynard Ferguson's Music Library is Headed to UNT

August 23, 2008

DENTON -- Jazz legend Maynard Ferguson's entire music library will be located at the University of North Texas, and his extensive collection of memorabilia, horns, wardrobe and awards will likely be housed at a museum in Denton, the university has announced. An anonymous donor and a foundation bought Ferguson's estate for $600,000, UNT music professor Steve ...