Had tix to see Maynard for the 3rd time way back in the 80's. Day before the concert my cousin out of the blue stops over and asks us if we knew who Maynard Ferguson was. Of course I flipped out and showed her our tickets. Turned out she was working for the company that sponsored the concert and she was in charge of picking him up at the airport and chauffering him around. After the concert she took us backstage where we met Maynard and got autographed posters. Class act. My cousin said Maynard was one of the classiest people she ever met. RIP Maynard Ferguson.
To this day I still believe that Maynard was one of the true musical geniuses. I would put him with Miles Davis, Michael Jackson, and any other true talent. Nobody can copy what this man was able to do. He was also a very kind and generous man. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about him. In any context, how many stars can you say that about?
@@frankmorton1626 I saw him perform in 1986 at a tiny hotel in a small town in upstate New York. I guess his popularity had faded by then. It's too bad he drank so much alcohol and ruined his liver, but we all have our vices.
"I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about him." I saw him a few times as a kid. He was a main reason I played and then became a teacher. But I didn't really know about how generous he was to young musicians until after he died. I also have never heard a bad word about him. THAT'S impressive.
For a high school English class we had to write a letter to a famous person so I wrote to him. No reply during the school year, but the following fall I received a large envelope with a photo and nice letter that said they'd been touring and apologized for the long time to reply. I showed it to the school band director who was a tremendous fan and trumpet player. He asked to hang them in his office for awhile. I obliged. Fifty years later I still have them.
I followed Maynard all around the East Coast as a high-school and college jazz player. When I became a teacher I was lucky enough to have him play at my high school with Big Bop Nouveau four times. Those were great times.
I once played trumpet in a marching band and we had a couple of screechers who could play an octave higher than I could. Everyone idolized Maynard and then we actually got to see him on a road trip. He was the G.O.A.T.
This fantastic arrangement by the great Don Sebesky is a clinic on how to arrange an older hit/chestnut in the style of his client's personality!! Liberal, but recognizable retention of the contrapuntal motivs, great, modern reharmonizations, and several surprising fake, yet delightfully unexpected extended endings, this chart perfectly showcases Maynard's legendary range and chops!! This chart and Maynard's performance ALWAYS makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, no matter how many times I hear/see it!! WoW!!!
This brings back lots of memories when I saw this band at The Southerland Lounge on the south side of Chjcago. Maynard and his band were there several times over the years and he always gave 101%. Oh how the good old days were ever so GREAT. RIP Maynard. you are gone but not forgotten. Your Stella By Starlight is also a masterpiece.
The boss at his best incredible the days when he was over here in England after the Americans upset him by saying he had too many foreign players in his band when he told then his was Canadian he left there shores to come over here all was forgotten 10 yrs later when he went back wonderful player and gentleman!
When I was just 10 yrs old, NYC was so safe that I'd walk across Inwood Park, down to 207th and Broadway, and then take Duke's A train down to 69th, transfer to the D or F and go back uptown to Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds and see the Yanks or Giants afternoon games. What a great time that was, dittos for the Basie, Ellington, Miller and Dorsey bands!!
Maynard.Trompetista canadiense con una trayectoria de 50 años.Compositor y arreglista.Ganador de Gramys.Y unos de los primeros trompetistas que toco el cielo (por los agudos que alcanzaba sin ningún esfuerzo).Intrepretando un clásico de el gran Duke Ellington
Incredible. Felt a bit like the sax section was't quite ready for that tempo out of the gate but just ever so subtly. Maynard is still so untouchable when it comes to articulation and style in the upper register.
There are many great musicians, many great trumpet players. But Maynard was almost like watching an athlete. Michael Jordan in the NBA final, Secretariat's Preakness.
They were all good but they (Buddy, Maynard, Harry James, Frank and everyone that wanted to be in an ("A list": known crew or preverbal "Rat Pack" named and aimed brothers and collection of musicians and performers) which eventually has spawned ever so many spin-off Big Band Group leaders and bands that have been through it all over the past several years that they all desired to be in their own right and region. All of the side men in and over the road turmoil, and struggles in subsistence living under the leader who was trying to make ends meet by still staying on the road during the 50's, `60's the years on the road and when do we jump and try it on or own. Now the lot of leaders were all pillagers of college jazz programs for the all mighty Dollar on the road via cheap good musicians. Many stayed and many transferred to the Steady work, other Job that paid the bills, not associated with that lifestyle of being on the road. Which I think settled in in the Mid 1970's but the kill was that the technology of Music was about to kill them all via multi-track recording in the 1970's and all out loss for the actual musician with the advent of synthesizers and MIDI sequenced multi- track recording formats from the late 1980's until after the year 2,000. Not either much help for the actual professional musician after 2000 even until now in 2025. Not even funny....
It was after his Timothy Leary stint so Maynard was high as a kite on music,...on being Maynard! Great stuff! Damn! Maynard was the man! Hey Kim, when are you putting out the Maynard documentary?!
Considering the fact I got a chance to talk with Maynard and Timothy Leary after a gig in Torrance, California in the '90s, this was hardly after his Leary Stint. Vitamin B booster shots for everyone!
The Presenter is Bill Grundy , who 8 years later (in a drunken haze ) would provoke the Sex Pistols in a vulgar exchange (F bombs at tea time on the BBC ,,,"The filth and the fury ) The Boss nails it
he is a cartoon here, no matter how sincere you might believe his enthusiam to be. Lang Lang ain't got nothin' on him. Kinda sad-ish. Fine jazz, of course, and that makes it all the weirder...
Everybody. Hell, I talked with Maynard and his friend Dr. Timothy Leary for about an hour after one of his gigs in Southern California. Vitamin B booster shots for everybody in the band!
Maynard wasn´t just a brilliant musician, he was a force of nature.
Take the "A" three octaves up train.
zebra3stripes yeah thats maynards train. May he rest in piece, 8 octaves above us
Just thinking about it will make a trumpet player's face ache.
His band played my high school in '83(?).
Truly awesome.
Shit my pants ooohhh yeah
Had tix to see Maynard for the 3rd time way back in the 80's. Day before the concert my cousin out of the blue stops over and asks us if we knew who Maynard Ferguson was. Of course I flipped out and showed her our tickets. Turned out she was working for the company that sponsored the concert and she was in charge of picking him up at the airport and chauffering him around. After the concert she took us backstage where we met Maynard and got autographed posters. Class act. My cousin said Maynard was one of the classiest people she ever met. RIP Maynard Ferguson.
To this day I still believe that Maynard was one of the true musical geniuses.
I would put him with Miles Davis, Michael Jackson, and any other true talent. Nobody can copy what this man was able to do.
He was also a very kind and generous man. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about him. In any context, how many stars can you say that about?
He always acknowledged his band members. I'm grateful I seen him live.👍👏👏💯
@@frankmorton1626 I saw him perform in 1986 at a tiny hotel in a small town in upstate New York. I guess his popularity had faded by then. It's too bad he drank so much alcohol and ruined his liver, but we all have our vices.
"I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about him."
I saw him a few times as a kid. He was a main reason I played and then became a teacher. But I didn't really know about how generous he was to young musicians until after he died.
I also have never heard a bad word about him. THAT'S impressive.
For a high school English class we had to write a letter to a famous person so I wrote to him. No reply during the school year, but the following fall I received a large envelope with a photo and nice letter that said they'd been touring and apologized for the long time to reply. I showed it to the school band director who was a tremendous fan and trumpet player. He asked to hang them in his office for awhile. I obliged. Fifty years later I still have them.
someone looks like he's having fun
That's Maynard's music for you!
He means the announcer is having fun with his eyelids
It’s the cocaine.
@@TheThem81 was he doing coke at this point in his career?
@@TheThem81 maybe music isn't for you.
Saw Maynard a dozen times throughout the years and he was incredible and such a nice person - RIP Maynard you were the best 👏
I followed Maynard all around the East Coast as a high-school and college jazz player. When I became a teacher I was lucky enough to have him play at my high school with Big Bop Nouveau four times. Those were great times.
I once played trumpet in a marching band and we had a couple of screechers who
could play an octave higher than I could. Everyone idolized Maynard and then we actually got to see him on a road trip. He was the G.O.A.T.
Band: oh man, he's trying to conduct again
Maynard: Arms flail crazily
Band: don't look at him.
he was a showman. the band understood that was for the audience a lot more than for them
@@brians9508 always want a show with the talent
A true musician who obviously loved what he did.
Never worked a day in that career. So to speak.
This fantastic arrangement by the great Don Sebesky is a clinic on how to arrange an older hit/chestnut in the style of his client's personality!! Liberal, but recognizable retention of the contrapuntal motivs, great, modern reharmonizations, and several surprising fake, yet delightfully unexpected extended endings, this chart perfectly showcases Maynard's legendary range and chops!! This chart and Maynard's performance ALWAYS makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, no matter how many times I hear/see it!! WoW!!!
Thanks for the arranger credit.
The Don Sebesky arrangement played here used to be published (Hal Leonard, or Kendor?). It may still be available.
Well said! I have the same physical reaction too. AMAZING arrangement.
damn..for the tempo that band is playing ..one word - tight!
I hope that you all know how truly amazing this is. Yeah, the world was a better place when The Boss was here.
This brings back lots of memories when I saw this band at The Southerland Lounge on the south side of Chjcago. Maynard and his band were there several times over the years and he always gave 101%. Oh how the good old days were ever so GREAT. RIP Maynard. you are gone but not forgotten. Your Stella By Starlight is also a masterpiece.
Can never get tired listening and watching Maynard Ferguson. I saw him live back in the 70s and was in awe of him and his band
The boss at his best incredible the days when he was over here in England after the Americans upset him by saying he had too many foreign players in his band when he told then his was Canadian he left there shores to come over here all was forgotten 10 yrs later when he went back wonderful player and gentleman!
Dude was his own definition, like the Everglades. The Maynard. So incredible I still get chills.
Ditto 👍
Maynard Ferguson was on a whole other level... this is phenomenal
One of the greatest pieces of music, one of the best performances by a true musical genius ever made!!!
When I was just 10 yrs old, NYC was so safe that I'd walk across Inwood Park, down to 207th and Broadway, and then take Duke's A train down to 69th, transfer to the D or F and go back uptown to Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds and see the Yanks or Giants afternoon games. What a great time that was, dittos for the Basie, Ellington, Miller and Dorsey bands!!
I saw him live in 1978. Great show.
Could melodically play in the stratosphere. Remarkable!!
Wow!! Just died and went to heaven!! This is an incredible capture and memory of the Boss!
As good as the ensemble is, listen to how hard the rhythm section swings @2:48 when the piano is featured. Those guys are locked in.
First class musician...and amazing entertainer. Sucks all the oxygen out of the room. WOW!
best version I've heard
Especially the cut time
Its not in cut time but i see what you mean and i agree
He nailed this!!
To a tree ! Too squeaky Pete !
Awesome quality footage for 1969
What an incredible upload. Well done. Thank you!
Awesome!!!!!
Love it!
2:54, intense Maynard hip thrusting with a climax at 3:01
Wow 🤩 Lol 😂
You're a great when you can be excellent and enjoy the hell out of it!
this performance brings me pure joy
Wow!
メナードファーガソンのハイトーンはいつ聴いても最高ですね！
One of the best band in the land just great
I play it that way.
Except I do it 3 octaves lower and at much slower speed.
It is perfect. Maynard is perfect.
The Best!!
Boss!
Maynard is King
Maynard, the Elvis of the trumpet! Wow!
ça swing dur ....!!!!!!
les big bands c'est quand même magique !!!!!!
And now you know where the character of Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinatti came from.
Maynard.Trompetista canadiense con una trayectoria de 50 años.Compositor y arreglista.Ganador de Gramys.Y unos de los primeros trompetistas que toco el cielo (por los agudos que alcanzaba sin ningún esfuerzo).Intrepretando un clásico de el gran Duke Ellington
Wow Maynard was awesome!
What a showman!
and I dig the young Mr. Rogers on piano! 😂
No you don't, it's Gordon Beck
ensaiadadebotafogo r/wooosh
Wow. "Tight" doesn't even begin to describe it.
As a fan,not a specialist, fokking fantastic trumpet by mr ferguson!
Maynard and boys are cookin
Incredible. Felt a bit like the sax section was't quite ready for that tempo out of the gate but just ever so subtly. Maynard is still so untouchable when it comes to articulation and style in the upper register.
I always pronounce the name of this song as "Take the a train"
That guy in the beginning blinks 64 times in 30 seconds :0
El mejor!!!
Maynard was one happy trumpet player. I'd like to know if music was really his main drug that kept him going before his dearh
He was like so many players. As long as one can till play, things are happy.
Este tipo es,un fuera de liga,su manera de tocar,como dirige la banda,su improvisacion,su tecnica. Es perfecto.
show man senssacional
The Boss in his prime!
"But there's nothing on the prompter!"
"Nothing on the prompter is where this man eats."
I prefer the Canadian version, take the train eh
Dig the energy.
Ellington actually wanted Maynard in his band at one time, but he turned it down.
Holy runaway train, batman!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!
James Morrison trumpet flinstone
That guy blinks a lot lol
Outfrikiing STANDING video and performance. Is there more?
There are many great musicians, many great trumpet players. But Maynard was almost like watching an athlete. Michael Jordan in the NBA final, Secretariat's Preakness.
Sounds like a high A at the very end......[trumpet A that is....]
So funny, how He dances 😂
Mr Rogers can play the piano!
Who knows, that's Gordon Beck
What's the rush? 🤯
Great quality video. Is it Ronnie Scott on tenor, standing?
Yes!
Damn I need a lucky strike after that performance
They were all good but they (Buddy, Maynard, Harry James, Frank and everyone that wanted to be in an ("A list": known crew or preverbal "Rat Pack" named and aimed brothers and collection of musicians and performers) which eventually has spawned ever so many spin-off Big Band Group leaders and bands that have been through it all over the past several years that they all desired to be in their own right and region. All of the side men in and over the road turmoil, and struggles in subsistence living under the leader who was trying to make ends meet by still staying on the road during the 50's, `60's the years on the road and when do we jump and try it on or own. Now the lot of leaders were all pillagers of college jazz programs for the all mighty Dollar on the road via cheap good musicians. Many stayed and many transferred to the Steady work, other Job that paid the bills, not associated with that lifestyle of being on the road. Which I think settled in in the Mid 1970's but the kill was that the technology of Music was about to kill them all via multi-track recording in the 1970's and all out loss for the actual musician with the advent of synthesizers and MIDI sequenced multi- track recording formats from the late 1980's until after the year 2,000. Not either much help for the actual professional musician after 2000 even until now in 2025. Not even funny....
Animal
That was snotty good pip pip .
Me cuesta muchísimo trabajo hacer las notas agudas ,solo llego hasta F# 2da octava 😢
Why is he blinking so much? Does it help him talk? I think it must...
It was after his Timothy Leary stint so Maynard was high as a kite on music,...on being Maynard! Great stuff! Damn! Maynard was the man!
Hey Kim, when are you putting out the Maynard documentary?!
Considering the fact I got a chance to talk with Maynard and Timothy Leary after a gig in Torrance, California in the '90s, this was hardly after his Leary Stint. Vitamin B booster shots for everyone!
what mouthpiece
txvictor Rodriguez Maynard Ferguson FBL made by Jack Bell of England. FBL stands for Ferguson Bell Limited.
Elvis was jealous of some of that hip action.
Cleo Laine front right ?
Do we have any info re the drummer here. Is it Randy Jones and whatever happened to him?
+bops4me Randy Jones played for many years with Dave Brubeck. Great drummer!
Ronnie Stephenson
😃🌱💙🌾
daaamm that guy in the beginning looks like Michael from GTA5 lmao
is that David Caradine on piano?
Gordon Beck
I can't tell, is Maynard having any fun?
who's on the drum kit, does anyone know?
The late Ronnie Stephenson
...Who was that Limey git that introduced it?
DNulrammah Bill Grundy
+Richard Henderson finally someone says it! LOL ole Bill G who brought punk rock to your Brit home before 6pm.
The Presenter is Bill Grundy , who 8 years later (in a drunken haze ) would provoke the Sex Pistols in a vulgar exchange (F bombs at tea time on the BBC ,,,"The filth and the fury ) The Boss nails it
Don Sebeski arrangement
0:38
What's maynards mouthpiece ?
+James Kelly Before the Jett Tone, I know that.
The mouthpiece here is an FBL mouthpiece specifically made for Maynard by an English guy named Jack Bell (I think)
+Andrew Kagerer thank you
Actually he played a Bach t-1b screamer mouthpiece
Redpill Pirate #delusional
мастер высоких октав.
Didn't realize Maynard was so gray in the 60's
he is a cartoon here, no matter how sincere you might believe his enthusiam to be.
Lang Lang ain't got nothin' on him. Kinda sad-ish. Fine jazz, of course, and that makes it all the weirder...
they ran out of chairs and the tenor had to stand hahaha
Wow... Who knew The Boss did coke in the 60's?
Everybody. Hell, I talked with Maynard and his friend Dr. Timothy Leary for about an hour after one of his gigs in Southern California. Vitamin B booster shots for everybody in the band!
why does it looks like they are in a classroom
Maynard almost lost his balance at the end.