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08-24-2006, 09:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota | |  Maynard Ferguson, RIP
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I have just heard that The Boss Maynard Ferguson has passed away....I am still trying to confirm any fellow musicians know anything about this....  Sorry for the post on a Bass forum but we are all musicians...and he is a big name. |
08-24-2006, 03:22 PM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | | Maynard Ferguson RIP
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08-24-2006, 03:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Queens, N.Y.(Near JFK Airport) | | OH, MAN !!!
I had the radio turned off most of the day, so this is the first I'm hearing of this!
It definitely stinks!
RIP, Maynard.
Mike
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08-24-2006, 03:47 PM
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08-24-2006, 03:48 PM
| | ...Bluesin' and Funkin' | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | RIP. His bigband arrangements will not be forgotten.
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08-24-2006, 03:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | |  he will be missed
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08-24-2006, 04:28 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | RIP Maynard. |
08-24-2006, 06:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Central Illinois | | | Sad news. He was a big influence back in my horn playing days. His work with Stan Kenton in the 50's was groundbreaking.
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08-24-2006, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | Another one over here - Maynard Ferguson RIP
RIP Maynard
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08-24-2006, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by cb56 Sad news. He was a big influence back in my horn playing days. His work with Stan Kenton in the 50's was groundbreaking. | Yea..... he had a real influence on me when I was playing trumpet. He was an amazing man. I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon with him once in '72.
He'll be missed.
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08-24-2006, 08:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Denver | | | RIP Maynard. In a better place, blowing the high notes. |
08-24-2006, 08:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Near Pittsburgh, PA | | | Rest in Peace, Maynard...you will never be forgotten.
To think, it was only a few months ago that I saw him live. Fourth row. I was absolutely floored. He was truly amazing. |
08-24-2006, 08:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Columbus OH | | I had the pleasure of playing with Maynard Ferguson once in the mid 80's, and it remains one of the most memorable times of my life.
He was not only an exceptional player and composer, but he devoted his career to music education, he was always out to help kids get more into music in a real sense.
The dude left a legacy. I can only hope that I can touch so many people and leave a mark like that once I'm gone.
RIP, to a true musician and mentor to so, so many. 
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08-24-2006, 09:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Apalachin, NY | | RIP, Maynard. |
08-25-2006, 03:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | | in 2001 my highschool jazz band got to open for him in oklaoma city as part of the prize for winning state (i played trombone then) it amazed me that chain smokers could get that much volume.
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08-25-2006, 04:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: NorCal | | | RIP Maynard...a huge influence on me in my early years. I grew up listening and playing his big band arrangements, and had the chance to meet him in 88. He will be greatly missed.
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08-25-2006, 04:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Missoula, MT | | | A friend of mine (one Jillian Stansell, granddaughter of Fritz Stansell, founder of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp) got an invitation to audition for his band when she graduated high school. She could've made it, but wanted to focus on cello rather than trumpet.
I saw Big Bop Nuveau a few years ago, and it was great. He did a really cool piece with some Buddhist instruments.
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