OMG - real musicians . Maynard was simply amazing. I saw him live when I was in high school in the mid 70’s . 1976 graduate in Erie Pa. He and his all start young band was amazing live . Love this music ….
I went to see Maynard at a small club back in 1976. The drummer was an unknown to me at the time, called Steve Gadd who went on to record Aja that next year with Steely Dan. That was a magic night.
When I first heard Maynard double on other brass instruments, that inspired me to branch out from trumpet. Baritone Horn, Valve Tromebone, and a few others. Just that, is a positive trait in itself for inspiring brass players.
Saw MF several times over the years. One time, I was living about 60 miles north of Chicago. Maynard was going to play at a Chicago bar and somehow I found out that he was going to do an open afternoon practice session during hours the bar was not normally open. As the bar was not serving booze, I could get in even though I was still in high school. Only a few dozen people in the place but surprised that I knew 4 or 5 guys who were there. Great experience sitting a few feet from MF and his band. (Even got a chance to sneak a look at the mouthpiece on his horn. Looked a lot like one I had made for my brother - mostly a sax player - whose trumpet high notes needed a lot of help.) Great times.
Just remembered one more surprise from that day in Chicago. Maynard arrived for the practice session in a bus (a yellow school bus if my very old memory serves, strange as that seems). And, Maynard was the one driving the bus! Ah, the slightly weird Sixties.
Bands Of America hosted a big HS marching competition at U of Wisc Whitewater in the 80s where between pre-lims and finals, (forget which year, 86-89) we witnessed Maynard and his band. Wow, stuck with me these decades since.
WHat an amazing Post.. I love his big band stuff but his small group stuff was my favorite.. I Love this post. Thanks .. I almost played with his group.
Edgar, i can tell you that Maynard live and in person was unfkin believable. back in the 80sand 90s, Maynard was doing what Buddy Rich was doing. going from high school to high school playing concerts. i had the pleasure of seeing Maynard sometime in the very late 80s or early 90s.....cant remember exactly what year, but the volume from that horn even then was so surreal. i cant even imagine what he sounded like in his prime from the 40s 50s and the 60s.
At FSU in Tallahassee, plaster began falling from the ceiling of the auditorium. We were all sitting there wondering what that snow was in the air, then we figured it out. True story. Also saw him in an outdoor concert in New Haven. No plaster fell that day.
Kristian Herlofson Says: "It don't get much better than this folks, and from a technical standpoint this band is in the pocket. Wow, I think to put an ensemble like this together on short notice in todays era would be a tall order. Furthermore, I think footage like this is a definitive statement that Maynard Ferguson was a deeply profound individual with roots mush deeper than theme to Rocky. Two Bells UP to these horn-men. Way Up...!"
Maynard did a lot of "disco" music in the latest part of his work, flirting with music genre that does not represent the early part of his career when he delighted us with bebop phrasing rather than endless glissando into the nirvana of the highest trumpet tones he could get our of his horn. Many recordings that came after Rocky were much worse than that to say the least and did not represent the bebop trumpet player he once used to be....
I have a collection of ten 10inch from I think 1947. My son has just cleaned up recordings and digitized them! Great days I was16 and with friend owning record shop, used to spend Saturday listening to all new stuff coming out. I'll see if I can put up on you tube if any wants to hear them??🎼🎶🎺🎺
@@BrunoGebarski You’re talking about the albums MF did in the second half of the 70’s-which don’t represent what he did before OR after. His Big Bop Nouveau Band-the group for most of the last two decades of his life-was a solidly swinging group. Please do more research before making uniformed comments.
Just figured out "Parade" was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation music variety show which ran 1959-64. Many of the future "Boss Brass" luminaries are in the band backing Maynard- Rob McConnell on valve bone, Ed Bickert on guitar, Rick Wilkins featured on tenor, Erich Traugott on trumpet, Ron Hughes on bass bone etc.. Awesome footage!! Too bad about the ever-present video counter. WOULD love to see the whole episode..
I went to see MF in the 70's 80's until his passing . I have every ticket stub...... 525 of them. I missed a few shows. However my favorite MF period is this one. a Giant Band and swinging. However I think this is a studio Band from London. Also MF is on soooo many movie sound tracks.
Great post, thank you. The footage has CBC written all over it because the lighting is so poorly done but the quality of the musicians makes up for it.
this is the time when you want to see Maynard to play endlessly. miss him big time.... do you have a full concert by any chance ? thanks for the post this very unique footage:)
Great audio! The weird thing for me was that at time stamp 10:12:23.24 the perspective changed so that we're seeing a mirror image. It looks like Maynard is holding the trumpet with his right hand! It was done so smoothly I almost didn't catch it.
Good catch! The producer/director clearly wanted the shadowed shot to transition cleanly into a shot from the lit side, and then back again. Very nicely done, and I bet most people wouldn't notice it either!
Nope, not MF - I was talking about the valve trombone player in the section. It was indeed Rob McConnell. See my more recent comment regarding the CBC TV show "Parade"
Maynard and Stan Kenton high school learning to play trumpet how can anybody play valve trombone and then pick up the truck and hit those high notes so Maynard every time he came to Buffalo last time was at the Royal arms club and it was like the Maynard Ferguson sex have all the albums except for that one and that era starting with Maynard‘s dream band the first one when it was playing with as lead player was dynamiteall through high school I wanted to be a high note guy I just above notes those were all the band all the time Maynard every time he came and Kent for the prom at my university Saint Bonaventure I do miss him I’m glad I have the vinyl
I heard Maynard started as a trombone player. I noticed that one of the trombonists was playing a valve bone. I had also heard that Maynard was responsible for the super bone, which is a valve bone with a slide. I didn't see this guy move the slide, so I'm not sure if it was a super bone or not, but it was interesting to see a valve bone none the less.
Maynard played trombone with Kenton in the Dee Barton era (Here's Tn this clip he is playing a regular valve trombone. He had the Superbone built to his order (I think) in the early 1970s, well after this was filmed. Had it existed at this time I am sure he would have used it in this performance.
That was a valve trombone. The super bone is a valve/slide hybrid. His horn here is a Conn 6H (and so was Rob McConnell’s, back in the section). The superbone was developed in the 70s with the Holton corporation.
Rick Giles It’s a special instrument made especially for Maynard. I forget what he called it. Trombones, ordinarily, have to be played with the slide, unless it is a valve trombone.
First off how did the director miss the bass solo?? No rehearsal? Great sound crappy footage. He had amazing Jazz chops to go along with the High range for sure,
This is a Canadian TV series titled PARADE. It ran from 1959-64. It's looks like it may have been January of 1962 when this was filmed. www.loc.gov/item/jots.200027568/
This was lovely. Back in those days, he actually took the time to articulate notes and attempt to really play the trumpet, instead of the later years where he just rolled the valves around and made obnoxious high note noises to impress the uninformed. He had amazing talent and was an amazing player in his younger years. The later years - mostly junk.
Great arrangements,great musicianship,and performance.... but it doesn't appear to actually be "live".This is no criticism;it's devilishly hard to capture a performance like this, especially with the overlapping sounds that you will hear in the background inherent in the performance of a big band on stage!. if you look carefully at the trumpet player's fingers, or the saxophone players fingerings ;they don't always match up. Again ,this is to be expected; and Maynard Ferguson is the best!.
OMG - real musicians . Maynard was simply amazing. I saw him live when I was in high school in the mid 70’s . 1976 graduate in Erie Pa. He and his all start young band was amazing live .
Love this music ….
Saw him in 76 as well... I was a senior. Our stage band went and saw him in Houston at the LA Bastille club.
I went to see Maynard at a small club back in 1976. The drummer was an unknown to me at the time, called Steve Gadd who went on to record Aja that next year with Steely Dan. That was a magic night.
Dang....what hasn't Gadd done...that man is all over my music library !!
Maynard a true legend, and musical hero.
Who ever said Maynard couldn’t or was not a jazz musician? He had great jazz chops.
Saw Maynard Ferguson at Town Casino in Buffalo NY. Feel lucky to have seen him and his band play.
Замечательный 'стратосферный' джазовый трубач Мэйнард Фергюсон!
Спасибо блогеру за историческую память
55 years later ....still a favorite of mine in big band or sextet...
The glissando in Danny Boy couldnt have been played better on a violin . Beautiful
Thanks for this. We are so lucky to have lived during this time. We've walked amongst giants.
... and a low note specialist too!! Wonderful .... and so much feeling. what happened to me hearing and seeing this marvel? It cannot be undone!!!
When I first heard Maynard double on other brass instruments, that inspired me to branch out from trumpet. Baritone Horn, Valve Tromebone, and a few others. Just that, is a positive trait in itself for inspiring brass players.
Saw MF several times over the years. One time, I was living about 60 miles north of Chicago. Maynard was going to play at a Chicago bar and somehow I found out that he was going to do an open afternoon practice session during hours the bar was not normally open. As the bar was not serving booze, I could get in even though I was still in high school. Only a few dozen people in the place but surprised that I knew 4 or 5 guys who were there. Great experience sitting a few feet from MF and his band. (Even got a chance to sneak a look at the mouthpiece on his horn. Looked a lot like one I had made for my brother - mostly a sax player - whose trumpet high notes needed a lot of help.) Great times.
Just remembered one more surprise from that day in Chicago. Maynard arrived for the practice session in a bus (a yellow school bus if my very old memory serves, strange as that seems). And, Maynard was the one driving the bus! Ah, the slightly weird Sixties.
Bands Of America hosted a big HS marching competition at U of Wisc Whitewater in the 80s where between pre-lims and finals, (forget which year, 86-89) we witnessed Maynard and his band. Wow, stuck with me these decades since.
WHat an amazing Post..
I love his big band stuff but his small group stuff was my favorite.. I Love this post. Thanks .. I almost played with his group.
What a treat to have heard this live!!!
Edgar, i can tell you that Maynard live and in person was unfkin believable. back in the 80sand 90s, Maynard was doing what Buddy Rich was doing. going from high school to high school playing concerts. i had the pleasure of seeing Maynard sometime in the very late 80s or early 90s.....cant remember exactly what year, but the volume from that horn even then was so surreal. i cant even imagine what he sounded like in his prime from the 40s 50s and the 60s.
At FSU in Tallahassee, plaster began falling from the ceiling of the auditorium. We were all sitting there wondering what that snow was in the air, then we figured it out. True story. Also saw him in an outdoor concert in New Haven. No plaster fell that day.
The band was the"Canadian All Star Jazz band" CBC TV-Toronto. circa 1959.
WOW - Swingin’ MAYNARD!!! …Danny Boy is gorgeous too. THANK YOU for posting this gem l. 👏👏🎺
Beautiful tone... what a sound ! . thanks for posting ... Cheers
THIS is WHAT BIG band swing music is endlessly fascinating all about, THESE "Cats",ARE cooking with some mucho HOT SAUCE....
stop PUTTING the emphasis ON the wrong word
"The Canadian All Star Jazz Band"-Toronto 1959.
Kristian Herlofson Says:
"It don't get much better than this folks, and from a technical standpoint this band is in the pocket. Wow, I think to put an ensemble like this together on short notice in todays era would be a tall order. Furthermore, I think footage like this is a definitive statement that Maynard Ferguson was a deeply profound individual with roots mush deeper than theme to Rocky. Two Bells UP to these horn-men. Way Up...!"
Maynard did a lot of "disco" music in the latest part of his work, flirting with music genre that does not represent the early part of his career when he delighted us with bebop phrasing rather than endless glissando into the nirvana of the highest trumpet tones he could get our of his horn. Many recordings that came after Rocky were much worse than that to say the least and did not represent the bebop trumpet player he once used to be....
I have a collection of ten 10inch from I think 1947. My son has just cleaned up recordings and digitized them! Great days I was16 and with friend owning record shop, used to spend Saturday listening to all new stuff coming out. I'll see if I can put up on you tube if any wants to hear them??🎼🎶🎺🎺
@@cliffordwaghorn6358 buenísimo, bienvenida toda esa música. Bendiciones
@@BrunoGebarski That doesn’t take away from his incredible talent’
@@BrunoGebarski You’re talking about the albums MF did in the second half of the 70’s-which don’t represent what he did before OR after. His Big Bop Nouveau Band-the group for most of the last two decades of his life-was a solidly swinging group. Please do more research before making uniformed comments.
Eccezionale, non è solo un formidabile solista, ma anche un ottimo direttore d' orchestra.
Wow! Holy cow. What an amazing recording. Maynard is the best.
There's nothing like a live big band. It will just bowl you over.
Just figured out "Parade" was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation music variety show which ran 1959-64. Many of the future "Boss Brass" luminaries are in the band backing Maynard- Rob McConnell on valve bone, Ed Bickert on guitar, Rick Wilkins featured on tenor, Erich Traugott on trumpet, Ron Hughes on bass bone etc.. Awesome footage!! Too bad about the ever-present video counter. WOULD love to see the whole episode..
Also, Guido Basso and Arnie Chycoski trumpets, Butch Watanabi bone, Norman Amadio piano, Ron Rully drums...
Teddy Roderman on trombone.
I went to see MF in the 70's 80's until his passing . I have every ticket stub...... 525 of them. I missed a few shows. However my favorite MF period is this one. a Giant Band and swinging. However I think this is a studio Band from London. Also MF is on soooo many movie sound tracks.
Oh yea baby......;)....... oh yea. ......cold chills......love it ....so many years ago with great memories....
That double C is so clean near the end
THAT'S NOT A C IT'S A G
ON ONE OCLOCK JUMP . MAYBE ON DANNY BOY . SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION
Gary Connett I meant Danny boy should have specified sorry
The C is a beaut, but the truly staggering part of it is his slide down to the low B and the next part of the phrase.
Danny45635 Total Art.
HELL Y E S !!!!!! SOOO TIGHT! SO CLEAN! PERFECTION!
Great post, thank you. The footage has CBC written all over it because the lighting is so poorly done but the quality of the musicians makes up for it.
I like the shadows and highlights at "Danny Boy".
The lighting is actually really well done it's just that the quality is crap because this was the early ’50s
Simply magnificent.
A freakin trumpet genius!
THANKS FOR POSTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is there any songs like this omg its so good
The Boss at work...
Let your light shine down
Live at Jimmies an unbelievable album
this is the time when you want to see Maynard to play endlessly. miss him big time.... do you have a full concert by any chance ? thanks for the post this very unique footage:)
Great audio! The weird thing for me was that at time stamp 10:12:23.24 the perspective changed so that we're seeing a mirror image. It looks like Maynard is holding the trumpet with his right hand! It was done so smoothly I almost didn't catch it.
Good catch! The producer/director clearly wanted the shadowed shot to transition cleanly into a shot from the lit side, and then back again. Very nicely done, and I bet most people wouldn't notice it either!
It’s just small trivia’
Thank you for posting
Aaaauuuchchchch!!! Splendid!!!
total command of the horn...certainly in his prime.
Amazing!!
Nope, not MF - I was talking about the valve trombone player in the section. It was indeed Rob McConnell. See my more recent comment regarding the CBC TV show "Parade"
Correct, that's Rob for sure.
Anyone know who the valve bone player in the section is? Looks like a young Rob McConnell ..
Not MF on the solo, in the section, and that sure does lool like Rob McConnel to me!
The man.
A monster player . . truly.
Great Drummer too ‘
Yes,? is it Lamond.
Rick Wilkins Tenor Sax 🎷
Maynard and Stan Kenton high school learning to play trumpet how can anybody play valve trombone and then pick up the truck and hit those high notes so Maynard every time he came to Buffalo last time was at the Royal arms club and it was like the Maynard Ferguson sex have all the albums except for that one and that era starting with Maynard‘s dream band the first one when it was playing with as lead player was dynamiteall through high school I wanted to be a high note guy I just above notes those were all the band all the time Maynard every time he came and Kent for the prom at my university Saint Bonaventure I do miss him I’m glad I have the vinyl
Yeah, man!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The drive of the rhythm section is incredible - unrelenting.
Yessir!
Who’s on drums ??
I heard Maynard started as a trombone player. I noticed that one of the trombonists was playing a valve bone. I had also heard that Maynard was responsible for the super bone, which is a valve bone with a slide. I didn't see this guy move the slide, so I'm not sure if it was a super bone or not, but it was interesting to see a valve bone none the less.
Maynard played trombone with Kenton in the Dee Barton era (Here's Tn this clip he is playing a regular valve trombone. He had the Superbone built to his order (I think) in the early 1970s, well after this was filmed. Had it existed at this time I am sure he would have used it in this performance.
Ah, Maynard playing a good trumpet (Connstellation).
+rdangelo
....and a valve trombone at 1:00
thanks for this comment even if it was 2 years ago. i only knew that later in his life he was playing a holton t302 MF horn
The lead trumpet at my school played on a constellation
Amen
Pleeze don’t hate me for a stupid question……this recording is definitely before 1965… is the key boardist playing a FHENDER RHODE?
Late 50s on Canadian TV....anyone know anything more specific?
I've seen him play live and seen many many videos. I don't recall him ever using music.
He would have music out for a new chart, but at 250 gigs a year, you can't help but memorize it all.
@@ajn465 I saw him live many times, and have seen dozens and dozens of videos. I don't agree. Most of us would not memorize it all.
who is the tenor sax soloist
Rick Wilkins
That’s when Maynard was in the Stan Kenton Orchestra
The boss.....
Unfortunate that the time code is in the middle of the screen. Historic video otherwise.
Oh my. Where was it recorded? Which date? Is it SO difficult to write down some data?
Great
What year was this? Early 60's?
I didnt know they had a superbone back then
That was a valve trombone. The super bone is a valve/slide hybrid. His horn here is a Conn 6H (and so was Rob McConnell’s, back in the section). The superbone was developed in the 70s with the Holton corporation.
I did not know a trombone could be played without actually using the slide. *Mind Blown*
Rick Giles It’s a special instrument made especially for Maynard. I forget what he called it. Trombones, ordinarily, have to be played with the slide, unless it is a valve trombone.
Could the boss play jazz or what? Sweet🎼🎶🎺🎺
Drummer-is it Roberto Petacchia?
Uma raridade
First off how did the director miss the bass solo?? No rehearsal? Great sound crappy footage. He had amazing Jazz chops to go along with the High range for sure,
As Jake Hanna used to say "Right down the middle baby!"
Excellent
Can anyone list the personnel on this Band ?
I believe the sax soloist is Don Menza, that puts the between performance 1960-62. (IF I'm right)
not don menza. drummer looks like dee barton.
This is a Canadian Studio Band - late 50s Sax is not Don Menza ... A very competent studio band though ....
2020?
That was a valve trombone
(trom)-"bone"
Yes they are real toetappers. Great music and it will raise your blood pressure but then that is a good thing.
It´s the Boss playing trombone first and trumpet later
What year was this recorded?
I would guess the mid to late 50's
This is a Canadian TV series titled PARADE. It ran from 1959-64. It's looks like it may have been January of 1962 when this was filmed. www.loc.gov/item/jots.200027568/
1959- CBC Toronto
Who's the drummer here ?????????
Rick Wilkins
@@jimcoleman2369 No, Rick played Tenor Sax 🎷
Ron Fully
Correction- Ron Rully.
MF Un grande.
Si
Rob Mc on valve trombone... likely Ron Roulet on drums
Ed Bickert pre-Tele !!
before eating beef sandwiches for breakfast.
This was lovely. Back in those days, he actually took the time to articulate notes and attempt to really play the trumpet, instead of the later years where he just rolled the valves around and made obnoxious high note noises to impress the uninformed. He had amazing talent and was an amazing player in his younger years. The later years - mostly junk.
You must know nothing of music. Your ignorance of his talent speaks volumes. I’m 72 and a professional musician. There will never be another Maynard.
“ No one like him “
Great arrangements,great musicianship,and performance....
but it doesn't appear to actually be "live".This is no criticism;it's devilishly hard to capture a performance like this, especially with the overlapping sounds that you will hear in the background inherent in the performance of a big band on stage!. if you look carefully at the trumpet player's fingers, or the saxophone players fingerings ;they don't always match up. Again ,this is to be expected; and Maynard Ferguson is the best!.
a less cocky Maynard
I've never seen MF be cocky with his audience nor his band.
Not cocky but always confident !!!! Can you play like him ???? We think not !!!!!!!
+Kelly Goerbig No way, he loved all
Ronnie Sanders if anybody had full rights to cockiness it was him
actually as he gained popularity he added a little showmanship to his act like Elvis or liberace and the fans loved it