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Remembering Maynard at "Stratospheric" 2004
by Patricia Myers
Maynard Ferguson grinned with delight as the sounds of “Blue Birdland roared from a big band of 14 trumpeters. When the chart ended, he climbed on stage and declared, “Finally, somebody got it right! We don't need those funny instruments like saxophones and trombones! MF's classic wit and charisma were bonus elements of the four-day production ...
Maynard Ferguson: Influential
by Woodrow Wilkins
I remember the first time I saw Maynard Ferguson in concert. It was spring 1982, the Cross & Sword Amphitheater in St. Augustine, Fla. It was my first time seeing a live jazz act, and the program left me feeling very satisfied. I knew I was onto something, although that could have been said the first ...
Maynard Ferguson: Gonna Fly Now
by Jack Bowers
On Thursday morning, as Betty and I finished packing for our second trip to the Prescott, Arizona, Jazz Summit (more about that later), the e-mails started to arrive. The first was a rumor; the second confirmed the unwelcome news. Maynard Ferguson, a trumpeter whose breathtaking virtuosity, especially in the higher register, epitomized the word incredible, had ...
Nice N Juicy
Featuring the music of Maynard Ferguson
Duration: 5:40
Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn 2 / The Ballad Style
by Jack Bowers
The two albums on this CD reissue from Vocalion were recorded during trumpeter Maynard Ferguson's “English period (1968-72). It was a time when Ferguson was trying a number of new things, some of which worked, and some of which didn't. The first eight tracks are from MF Horn 2, the others from The Ballad Style of ...
Maynard Ferguson: Live -- At the Top
by Jack Bowers
Maynard Ferguson Live -- At the Top Brentwood Home Video 1975/2005 I loved trumpeter Maynard Ferguson's bands of the early to mid-'60s -- great charts, great players, and they swung their butts off. By 1974, when Live -- At the Top was filmed at the Plaza Hotel in Rochester, NY, ...
