Results for "Maynard Ferguson"

Maynard Ferguson: The One and Only Maynard Ferguson

by Woodrow Wilkins
July 22, 2007

Throughout his sixty-plus year career, Maynard Ferguson featured numerous sidemen on varying arrangements of jazz standards, covers of pop hits and original songs. As a young man, he performed with such legends as Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton. As a bandleader, his stage band and studio guests included a virtual who's who of jazz, ...

Maynard Ferguson: The One and Only

by Jack Bowers
June 24, 2007

In baseball parlance, one could say he went down swingin'. In July, 2006, less than a month before his passing at age seventy-eight, trumpeter Maynard Ferguson led Big Bop Nouveau and a handful of the group's notable alumni into a studio in Englewood, NJ, to record what is arguably his finest album in years, and one ...

Give It One

Featuring the music of Maynard Ferguson
Duration: 3:29
April 17, 2007

Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn VI: Live at Ronnie's

by Jack Bowers
January 13, 2007

In August 2005, when Maynard Ferguson and Big Bop Nouveau recorded MF Horn VI at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, no one could have known or even suspected that the trumpet legend would pass away one year later, shortly after a series of sold-out concerts at New York City's Blue Note nightclub and another recording ...

MF Horn 2 / The Ballad Style

By Maynard Ferguson

Label: Vocalion
Released: 2006
Track listing: Give It One; Country Road; Theme from Shaft; The Summer Knows; Mother; Spinning Wheel; Free Wheeler; Hey Jude; Born Free; Girl Talk; If He Walked Into My Life; The Fool on the Hill; The Impossible Dream; Somewhere; Maria; As Long as He Needs Me; Hushabye Mountain; The Sound of Silence; You Only Live Twice (76:38).

Remembering Maynard at "Stratospheric" 2004

by Patricia Myers
September 17, 2006

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
September 10, 2006

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
September 5, 2006

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
August 28, 2006

Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn 2 / The Ballad Style

by Jack Bowers
June 27, 2006

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 ...