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Hollywood Party / Jam Session

Label: Intima
Released: 2005

Album

Band Ain't Draggin'

Label: Intima
Released: 2005

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Article: Film Review

Maynard Ferguson: Live -- At the Top

Read "Maynard Ferguson: Live -- At the Top" reviewed 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, ...

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New Vintage

Label: Intima
Released: 2004

Album

Ridin' High

Label: Intima
Released: 2004

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Chameleon / Conquistador

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Chameleon: Chameleon (Hancock/Jackson/Mason/Maupin) - 4:36 Gospel John (Steinberg) - 6:05 The Way We Were (Bergman/Bergman/Hamlisch) - 3:27 Jet (McCartney/McCartney) - 3:56 La Fiesta (Corea) - 8:06 I Can't Get Started (Duke/Gershwin) - 3:44 Livin' for the City (Wonder) - 4:57 Superbone Meets the Bad Man (Chataway/Chattaway) - 5:09

Conquistador: Gonna Fly Now (Connors/Conti/Robbins) - 4:23 Mister Mellow (Chattaway/Ferguson) - 6:28 Star Trek (Theme) (Courage/Roddenberry) - 6:22 Conquistador (Chattaway/Ferguson) - 7:32 Soar Like an Eagle (James) - 6:37 The Fly (Chattaway/Ferguson) - 4:32

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Conquistador

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky); Mister Mellow; Theme from Star Trek; Conquistador; Soar Like an Eagle; The Fly.Sing Me Back Home; Lone Pilgrim.

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Chameleon

Label: Intima
Released: 2003

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Article: Album Review

Maynard Ferguson: Conquistador

Read "Conquistador" reviewed by Jim Santella


Maynard Ferguson's only gold album, Conquistador split its session time between his big band in San Francisco and a contemporary studio ensemble in New York. The 1977 album's memorable themes from Star Trek and Rocky, as well as the enchanting “Mister Mellow," made use of the studio ensemble with superlative results. Bob James and George Benson ...

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Article: Album Review

Maynard Ferguson: Chameleon / Conquistador

Read "Chameleon / Conquistador" reviewed by Matt Merewitz


It‘s not your everyday big band that has three simultaneous scream trumpet players on every song. Nevertheless, it is what has come to be expected from the master trumpeter-band leader Maynard Ferguson. The newly re-released and re-mastered Maynard Ferguson Big Band tapes, Chameleon and Conquistador, fully embody the modern big band. It has all the elements ...


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