Results for "Maynard Ferguson"

Chameleon / Conquistador

By Maynard Ferguson

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

Chameleon

By Maynard Ferguson

Label: Intima
Released: 2003

Conquistador

By Maynard Ferguson

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.

Maynard Ferguson: Conquistador

by Jim Santella
December 3, 2003

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 ...

Maynard Ferguson: Chameleon / Conquistador

by Matt Merewitz
October 7, 2003

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 ...

Anthony Ortega

by Robert Spencer
January 10, 2001

Here is a man who has played with Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Paul Bley, Quincy Jones, Don Ellis, Dinah Washington, and {{Ella Fitzgerald. Here is a man whose alto saxophone playing has been compared to Charlie Parker's and Ornette Coleman's--both with just cause. Here is a man whose Sixties sessions, long out of print ...

Brass Attitude

By Maynard Ferguson

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1999

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 ...

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.

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 ...