Truly a great loss to jazz, and to music in general. We attended his 75th
birthday concert here in St. Louis, and it was just a fantastic performance -
my husband learned a great deal about hitting his own screaming high notes from
listening to Maynard (much to the detriment of my dogs and their
The great Maynard Ferguson died last night.
I remember playing a gig with him one time in SoCal many years ao. He
and his group of hotshots from UT came to play with the Agoura Hills
Concert Band. One of the charts they wanted to play had a horn tessitura
hanging on c''' forever with an 8vb os
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