I wonder how long his chops would last already at this point in his career. It's one thing to be a cool soloist and be able to groove to an old age, but a whole different thing to be a screamer and try to maintain that. Just my opinion.
I had the honor of stage managing two shows for Dizzy Gillespie back in the mid 80's. He was the same way, he'd walk on stage, blow a few notes, then walk off and let his band have the stage for a while, then come back on, blow a few notes, and walk off again. He never stole the show. He was a very giving musician and a great guy to work with for the two days he performed in the theater where I worked.
We were fortunate to have Maynard and his band perform at our HS in '84 - our Jazz band "Opened" for him... being a Trumpet Player, It was one of the highlights of my High School days.
This guy and his entire band came to play at my college in 1982, which was a small, not-very-well-known school with maybe 4,000 total students in the middle of an extremely economically depressed area. He put on the best 2-hour concert I ever experienced. I still remember it well, even 41 years later. Got me into jazz, which is now my primary musical love.
2:22 I have NEVER heard a big band groove so hard in MY LIFE. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve heard ANY BAND groove that hard. The absolute funk packed into those few lines is astounding. Fantastic arrangement, and badass players
Just found this gem. In the 70s as a young trumpet player, MF was a god to us. Saw him in Dallas in 77? All these years later with my expanded love of musical genres, Maynard is my favorite all time.
Three people I saw and tell people about. Maynard, Woody Herman, and Buddy Rich, the last two at a high school down the street from me. Rich came out and talked to the audience. After a little back and forth he asked what everyone wanted to hear. After hearing some of the suggestions he said, okay, then he'd play some stuff he "liked" ,jokingly implying our suggestions were crap.
I had the privilege of meeting Maynard back in 1982, I asked him when did he record “Hot Canary”, he stared at me, trying to figure out my age, then he responded, do you remember “hot canary”?, I answered,” sure that was my dad’s favorite!” he replied, “1949”. Maynard was quite a person! simple, friendly, to me he was the best and he still is!
When I was playin bass in jazz band in college 2013, we were still using this chart. It's not only a standard but this arrangement is the gold standard. Long live MF
Personnel: trumpets (L to R): Joe Mosello, Stan Mark, Dennis Noday, Ron Tooley trombones (L to R): Phil Gray, Nick Lane saxes/woodwinds (L to R): Eric Troub, Mike Migliori, Bobby Militello piano/keys: Biff Hannon guitar: John Chiodini bass: Gordon Johnson drums: Peter Erskine
Maynard came to our high school and performed for free, back in '78 or '79, because he was friends with Eddie Williams, the high school band director. All he asked for was beer. Lots of beer. Best trumpet tone in the business, bar none. We trumpet players were in Heaven when he came to our humble town. We all wanted to wail like Maynard.
I seen MF perform at Whitewater Wisconsin at Bands Of America Summer Marching competition, wanna say 87 or 88. Too bad I was too busy chasing the girl who let me feel her up on the bus ride up from Chicago to pay attention to the genius
Just figured out after years Peter Erskine is the drummer on this piece. He is a human metronome. His timing, pulse and interpretation is the best. This one always gets me jacked up. One of my favorite Ferguson charts. I got to interview Maynard on the air in Vegas for 15 minutes a year before he left us. It was a great interview.
While DiBlasio definitely played both (check my videos if you'd like to see him and I playing together when I was in high school), I believe that's Bobby Militello on Bari here.
I did a 2 year stint in my high school's jazz band back in the late 80's. Easily my favorite part of high school. We played everything from big band, rock n roll, pop, ballads and old standards. I played bass trombone and had a blast playing all the low parts. And we were pretty darn good for high school kids which made it all the more fun. Aaahhhh the memories.....
He used to travel the country giving performances to groups of music students. He came to Western Maryland a couple of times during my school years. It really makes an impression on you that someone that great is willing to come to your Podunk town.
I love watching Ferguson's band because he puts on a good show and the people look like they are having a good time playing and then I watch buddy rich and the players look like they are cowering in fear and rich is just staring them all down.
Maynard was a super nice guy..... The best jazz trumpet player EVER.... Buddy is the best drummer EVER..... Maynard Ferguson band was like a Cadillac but buddy Rich's band was like a Ferrari
When Maynard Ferguson came to my highschool in 1977, he was AMAZING! he got my younger brother to attend his summer camp to get professional training as a jazz musician! That year! MAYNARD was a life saving musician to our family!!
I was fortunate enough to be the announcer for Maynard's band during two broadcasts over the ABC and Armed Forces radio networks in the late Fifties, and can confirm it was easy and fun to work with him. At age nineteen I was still learning the ropes and, like Stan Kenton whose influence can be heard here, Maynard helped shape the more affirming side of my youth and personified for me the human element of the music business. I'm proud to say my eldest son Jon put me on to the present video, so the power of Maynard's music carries on to the next generation, in spades.--Dr. John-not-the-Tripper, 2019.
How fucking AWESOME was that. What a great daily TH-cam video that popped in my feed today ! At 63 I’m still a fan . I saw Maynard in a little town in the middle of know where putting on a concert , Bonifay, Florida many many years ago. I was stationed at Fort Rucker Alabama at the time.
I've seen Maynard Ferguson in concert in a few high school auditoriums and at the Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia. In my opinion, the best performance was at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club in London, England. It was just a month or two before he died. The tables were full of horn players from the local music industry. You could tell because they were all flipping their first three fingers as the band was playing. Maynard was on fire and the joint was jumping. Maynard was a true hero of mine and I sorely miss his music.
I love how at the end you can hear the Mike Douglas Show orchestra start playing their own Birdland, and it cuts off right as the sax rips a nasty lick!
Wow. What can you say about Maynard? Fantastic. The band played this really well. Great arrangements. RIP. 😇One of the greatest trumpets to ever play.🎺👏
2:58 - 3:21 is probably the best 23 seconds of any song I've ever heard, especially the transition at 3:03. Honestly, I must have listened to it nearly 100 times in the last 24hrs. It's been on repeat non stop. This arrangement is incredible!
The first time that I heard Peter zErskine, was in Houston at a basement club called La Bastille with Stan Kenton. Stan introduced him pointing out 4:22 that he was 18. The next time I heard him he was on Maynard’s band playing Birdland Always a Smokin’ player.
A cassette recording of this song got me through USAF basic training back in 1978. OK, I'll admit: USAF basic training was easier than my H.S. marching band camp. But this was our theme song throughout those 6 weeks. Can I get a shout for my BMTS 3708th? Aw yeah.
Maynard's band played at my high school twice during this time period. 35 years later, Joe Mosello (trumpeter on the left) is my nieces trumpet teacher.
I used to rush home from high school to catch Merv Griffin's and Mike Douglas's shows to hear their bands and see their guests. Those were the days: Maynard, Mel, Buddy, Clark, all the heavyweights were daytime guests! It was a golden time to be a music lover. In fact, I remember seeing this gig. Peter Erskine on drums is fantastic :)
When I was in high school band we worshipped Maynard. Years afterwards I managed to catch his band live and the audience was full of current high school band members. He was a mainstay. Wonder who they worship now?
I was blessed to see Ferguson twice ( late 80 s then mid 90 s) and dam if it wasn't the best show I have ever seen. He was all about showcasing new talent and they did not disappoint.
Back in the early 70s I first saw him at a "Porfessional Day" job fair at our high school, and then again several times at Hamilton Place. His band, at that time, were all graduate students at universities around the country. Awesome musicians and performers!! Have always been a big fan!
This band plays wonderfully loose because MF is a nice guy and fantastic bandleader. Watch how he supports the players. He's having a great time in the process.
I was lucky enough to see Weather Report in Ann Arbor MI when Jaco Pastorius was on bass and Peter Erskin was on drums. They blew the roof off the Michigan Theater for over two hours. One of the encore pieces was Birdland. The original version, written by them was on the album "Heavy Weather."
I love the sound of Peter Erskine's drums. Danny Seraphine played Slingerlands live about that time also. And who besides Peter can say he regularly played Birdland with two famous jazz groups.
HEY JUDE...JUST LIKE THE FERGUSON SONG! I really appreciate this man! I am a HUGE Maynard fan and even had a Maynard Ferguson Holton when I was in jazz band! Now I'm almost 60 and sick with leukemia and new to this internet stuff and thought"I'll see if perhaps..." and I find this! I remember this! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm feeling a little younger and just to hear Birdland live is so awesome! I can't thank you enough.
Great version. When I go back and listen to the Carnival album (from which this comes) I am astounded how it hasn't aged at all. Good music is timeless.
Wow! that bridge from 2:01 - 2:35 going into the tenor solo! I mean it's hard to top Weather Report, and then Manhattan Transfer's cover, but that bridge is an *AMAZING* moment of pure JAZZ that stands up with the best of the jazz/fusion during the 1970s. WOWZA
I saw MF a couple of times in the early 70's and it was the most exciting band I've ever heard. They did a number with the trumpet players spread out in the audience and Alan Downey, the guy with the Afro, stood two rows behind me. He was louder than my entire high school jazz ensemble. What incredible players!
I saw Maynard Ferguson back in the 80s at the Agora theater tickets were only $10 then I saw him at the front row theater awesome awesome awesome I'm a big fan
My wife and I had front row seats to see him at the Carlton West in Green Bay 1980 while she was about 8 months pregnant--I swear my ears are still ringing--our daughter did play trumpet in HS too!
Simplesmente maravilhoso. Grande mestre Maynard Ferguson. O Brasil conhece o Maynard Ferguson através da versão musical "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough", utilizada na abertura do programa de TV Video Show, da TV Globo, nos anos 80 e 90.
This was "the dream team" baby!! Listen to these guys!! I heard this crew in 1977 @ Sunset H.S. in Portand Or. Loudest, strongest cleanest trumpet section i've ever heard! Oh yeah, then there's Maynard,,,soaring over all of them, pure air and sound. Whew. Often imitated never duplicated. ❤️
I saw Maynard's band in 1975 in Peabody Mass and was hooked. I saw his band several times between the 70s and. 90s I remember seeing his daughter sitting on the sidelines reading a romance novel!
I had the pleasure of hearing Maynard live once in Denver. My ears are still ringing! I anticipated trouble when I saw a trombone player putting in ear plugs. I'm sure they had it turned up to 11 (or 12).
That is awesome Mikey . We played this chart in Stage Band in High School. Strong Vincent High School in Erie ,PA. 1973-1976. We saw Maynard’s band live in those years a few times . To be in the audience was a real experience. You could feel the excitement and the music hitting you . I played Tenor Sax.
great arrangement! Energetic, creative and surprising! And great musicians
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I saw May are and his band do this in ‘79 at the university of Calgary. The guys came on stage, sat down, Maynard came in last and 5 seconds later this was blowing our minds! Unforgettable!
Bearded trumpet player second from the right blows a dandy High G at 3:20. Just one of many he probably played on most of his gigs way back when. He sorta gets a chance to prepare and windup for it. "Cherry picking high notes" we used to call it... In some of these charts it is the 2nd, 3rd and 4th chairs that make for a difficult night. Both physically and emotionally. It can be really hard to hear your own sound underneath the higher notes the lead player is constantly blowing. That is IF these lower chair trumpet players really want to be heard. Most of the ones I work with on a semi pro to pro level don't really put enough air behind the horn. In a perfect world the lower chairs would pretend they're on lead. Blowing the fourth book with the same intensity as the lead player. Just my 2 cents!
I often play 3rd or 4th trumpet in two big bands and I got used to the fact that I contantly can't hear myself and after so much time only playing in big bands I started playing in an orchestra as the only trumpet and I first had to get used to the fact that I CAN constantly HEAR myself now.
+Rondo Anderson Disguised name. Not a particularly famous cat but then who is lol? Not when Britney Speares gets chosen for fame at age seven. Using a pseudonym is useful. Most of your trumpet forums are filled with idiots. Pushing the same,- tired obsolete concepts like "faster air for high notes". So? I keep my name to myself. I could be a heavy player or some skinny twelve year punk with a bad attitude. Or maybe I'm your little sister keeping track of which websites you visit on the net. Btw: For some reason the lead player, Stan Mark isn't going for the High G that is the third note from the beginning. It should start with, First ledger line B Natural, D second ledger line. High G fourth ledger line but he doesn't play the rise I hear him or someone else blowing the High E in the second passage but no one on the G. Stan did have a good G and I'd heard him blow plenty of them back in the day. Perhaps in this recording he was still getting used to Lynn N leaving the band. Back in the 1970's Maynard's trumpet section was not always filled with screamers. In general he had two. The lead and a guy like Nicholson. Then there would be a guy like Bob Summers or Don Hahn who was more noted for playing jazz. At the end of his life he was carrying only two trumpet players besides himself. Usually Pat Hessions and Seraphim Aguillar. Both of these cats had the screamers.
+Rondo Anderson Bearded trumpet player on Stan's left nails a nice G at 3:21. Not sure who he is. Mosello would be a good guess. He appears to be the "high nte guy" in the section. Stan Mark was playing the lead book but various other cats would assist him in the stratospheric notes. Lynn Nicholson being one of them during the year of 197. Back in 1975 pr so I observed Guiseppe Mosello on the band and he was nailing nice Double C's and whatnot. Then just six months later? He was really working! You could see him looking all stressed out. That's why it never bothers me when a good lead player joins a band that I'm in. More the merrier. It's only the really immature types who insist on gobbling up all the lead and high note parts for themselves. Part of the reason those traveling big bands carried some many trumpet players was because of the tendency of road life to burn out lead players. Stan Kenton carried FIVE trumpets. The third played all the scream parts. Third trumpet in fact was Maynard's position on the band back in 1952. Buddy Childers blew lead. The Kenton biography "Artistry In Rhythm" tells fascinating stories about how difficult that it was to blow the lead book CONSISTENTLY! Lead player Tom Baker mentioned that on the Kenton band that one day he "had to pick out the dried blood from his mouthpiece and break open a scab on his lip just to get a note out of the thing". That was a heavy HEAVY Kenton band too. What with Jim Karchner on the "scream chair". It is alleged that Karchner's Double C was better than most trumpet player's High C's. Lin Biviano mentions "consistency being of utmost importance" in his teachings too. LIke some five years ago a bandleader (somewhere in California) came up to me and asked of I would yield half the lead book to a cat who used to be the lead player. I didn't really need anyone to help me but I posted no resistance to the leader's request. Then six months later I developed a nasty infection inside my upper lip due to a cold sore. Couldn't get even one note out of the horn for a whole week! It was at that time that I really appreciated having a guy next to me with some solid high note chops. It saved the band!
+Jorge Callico from my experience, (im not a trumpet player i play bari, shoutout to all bari,) usually in the bands i play in the first and second players blow the high stuff during the main melody and the third and fourth play the easy stuff and then the first and seconds back off and let them play the really screamy stuff at the end. this is actually what my main man maynard did with his band.
That's Biff Hannon on the Rhodes, I believe. This is pretty close to the band I saw in '78 in Youngstown, Ohio. I attended a really nice jazz clinic with Maynard at Slippery Rock not long before this. What a super, super guy. Rest in peace, Maynard, you were a massive part of my high school jazz life!
Awesome!!!! We played this track in jazz band back in 95! Our Jazz band was a force to be reckoned with.... we did very well in awards, we we're asked to open many business in our town which we thought was cool😁🍻 but this track we JAMMED! Our band was controllable loud and soft when needed...... I just haven't seen a band come out if that school since like that one..... it was one that worked! Every now and then ya get lucky and CLICK!
Some were high. But not all. As much as I admire Stan Mark? My guess is that he was hitting the beer pretty good back then. Regardless he still ran a strong section. At this point in time he was the only member of the band whom I'd known and met. Stan was always very approachable. Even til today I think that he likes to help other musicians. I saw Maynard at least a dozen times over about 35 years. One of the times Stan was actually imbibing on stage was a performance somewhere in Beverly Mass. Their arrangement of Stevie Wonder's "Livin For The City" was one of the most moving pieces I've ever heard.
See, I saw them back in ‘78. Music and Camraderie was the #1 thing. You had to be the artist and not let it get in the way. Otherwise ... But if you’re young and it’s part of your artistry and you can burn when it counts? No judgment. *** They were amazing; in fact, technically unrepeatable. The spirit easily shines through the source limitations
Brings back many a memory. I believe the year was nineteen hundy and eighty two the first time I was blown away! I’m surprised I still have my hearing all these years later after cranking my sweet cassette tapes in my Honda civic. 😆
You correct, Eric Traub on Tenor. I was playing at a club in Houston about 1980. “Rockefeller’s originally a bank. Those three Eric, MIGS and Bobby Militello. Great sax section!
I met the bassist Gordon Johnson when he toured with Chuck Mangione for his “Love Notes” album. If I remember correctly, he also sang “Children of Sanchez.” Nice guy.
I love how he doesn’t steal the show he simply plays along with his band and that shows how much of good person and player he is
I wonder how long his chops would last already at this point in his career. It's one thing to be a cool soloist and be able to groove to an old age, but a whole different thing to be a screamer and try to maintain that. Just my opinion.
until Jerry steals it.
I had the honor of stage managing two shows for Dizzy Gillespie back in the mid 80's. He was the same way, he'd walk on stage, blow a few notes, then walk off and let his band have the stage for a while, then come back on, blow a few notes, and walk off again. He never stole the show. He was a very giving musician and a great guy to work with for the two days he performed in the theater where I worked.
Green m&ms
I saw him three time
All great But the third time
Old Maynard just let them go… I mean really let them go
That took guts
In my book, he’s the greatest screamer of all time. I had the pleasure of hearing him in the beginning of his career. I’m 83 and I still dig it!!
yay
What about Bill Chase??
I'm a bit younger, but I still appreciate Maynard Ferguson. I grew up on his music.
Saw him twice in Denver in the 80's. He played valve trombone on earlier straight jazz albums.
that's what we talking bout
We were fortunate to have Maynard and his band perform at our HS in '84 - our Jazz band "Opened" for him... being a Trumpet Player, It was one of the highlights of my High School days.
Your Band name?
Just curious.
Milwaukee area maybe?
Me too. I played trumpet at High Point in MD and he and his band came there in 1982 for our senior concert!!🎺
me too! around 1984! he was insane! :)
Me Too! He played at Escondido High in 83. Our Jazz band opened up for him.
Saw him play at Chatham Twp, NJ High School in the early 80s. He was a pioneer in touring small auditoriums as well as an amazing performer.
MUST GIVE CREDIT TO THE EXCELLENT DRUMMER FOR THE DRIVING FORCE !
+Philip Chen real and true
Peter Erskine!!! Zawinul scooped him up as soon as he got the chance ....
Don't forget that once upon a time Joe Zawinul played with Maynard !
Hell Yeah!
Philip Chen yeah! Peter Erskine! Weather Reports ace!
my dad is the alto player!
How'd your dad like playing in Maynard's band. Ferguson looks like a fun guy to play for.
That's sick!
What a god
Your dad was one of the great alto players I ever heard. Met him in Detroit in 1981. Great guy.
dude that's incredible! This band is legendary.
This guy and his entire band came to play at my college in 1982, which was a small, not-very-well-known school with maybe 4,000 total students in the middle of an extremely economically depressed area. He put on the best 2-hour concert I ever experienced. I still remember it well, even 41 years later. Got me into jazz, which is now my primary musical love.
2:22
I have NEVER heard a big band groove so hard in MY LIFE. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve heard ANY BAND groove that hard. The absolute funk packed into those few lines is astounding. Fantastic arrangement, and badass players
Damn you right
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis big band. You need to get out more!
Just saying...
Please check out Weather Report's version of Birdland You will not regret it.
@@rickpopp6535 wouldn't really call that a version since it's the original
@@GregZO6 meh
Just found this gem. In the 70s as a young trumpet player, MF was a god to us. Saw him in Dallas in 77? All these years later with my expanded love of musical genres, Maynard is my favorite all time.
Yeah, can you imagine a time when Big Bands actually toured and made money? Maynard was so awesome.
Three people I saw and tell people about. Maynard, Woody Herman, and Buddy Rich, the last two at a high school down the street from me. Rich came out and talked to the audience. After a little back and forth he asked what everyone wanted to hear. After hearing some of the suggestions he said, okay, then he'd play some stuff he "liked" ,jokingly implying our suggestions were crap.
I had the privilege of meeting Maynard back in 1982, I asked him when did he record “Hot Canary”, he stared at me, trying to figure out my age, then he responded, do you remember “hot canary”?, I answered,” sure that was my dad’s favorite!” he replied, “1949”. Maynard was quite a person! simple, friendly, to me he was the best and he still is!
When I was playin bass in jazz band in college 2013, we were still using this chart. It's not only a standard but this arrangement is the gold standard. Long live MF
Personnel:
trumpets (L to R): Joe Mosello, Stan Mark, Dennis Noday, Ron Tooley
trombones (L to R): Phil Gray, Nick Lane
saxes/woodwinds (L to R): Eric Troub, Mike Migliori, Bobby Militello
piano/keys: Biff Hannon
guitar: John Chiodini
bass: Gordon Johnson
drums: Peter Erskine
Thanks for this!
Buncha hacks....
Recognized Mr. Erskine right away. Nick Lane is now with Chicago having taken over live concerts from Jimmy Pankow.
Gary Oak he’s the star of the show, of course
@ fuck u
Maynard came to our high school and performed for free, back in '78 or '79, because he was friends with Eddie Williams, the high school band director. All he asked for was beer. Lots of beer.
Best trumpet tone in the business, bar none. We trumpet players were in Heaven when he came to our humble town. We all wanted to wail like Maynard.
I drove to your school to hear him. I was in high school too. I still play in multiple big bands. He was the first band I ever got into. Excellent!
then wail
I seen MF perform at Whitewater Wisconsin at Bands Of America Summer Marching competition, wanna say 87 or 88. Too bad I was too busy chasing the girl who let me feel her up on the bus ride up from Chicago to pay attention to the genius
Just figured out after years Peter Erskine is the drummer on this piece. He is a human metronome. His timing, pulse and interpretation is the best. This one always gets me jacked up. One of my favorite Ferguson charts. I got to interview Maynard on the air in Vegas for 15 minutes a year before he left us. It was a great interview.
Erskine is very talented & very versatile - played with Maynard's big band, Weather Report, and Steely Dan.
@@dickash1003 I saw Maynard's band years ago in Detroit. It was just after Peter joined the band. He brought it from the get go.
He's a monster. He also played with the band that wrote this tune, Weather Report.
Dat bari sax player who also played flute and picc. Props.
That guy is my new hero.
denis diblasio ?
yep
Denis DiBlasio is goals
While DiBlasio definitely played both (check my videos if you'd like to see him and I playing together when I was in high school), I believe that's Bobby Militello on Bari here.
That rhythm section is KILLING it.
That breakdown in the middle might be one of the heaviest pieces of music ever created in the universe.
Used to love playing this in jazz band. Oh, those were the days!
Cool, way Cool,
Google for Community Band + your city
They just might have it in their repertoire!
I'm playing it in Jazz Band now, I'm the bass player. I wish I could get that same distortion, it sounds so cool and different.
I did a 2 year stint in my high school's jazz band back in the late 80's. Easily my favorite part of high school. We played everything from big band, rock n roll, pop, ballads and old standards. I played bass trombone and had a blast playing all the low parts. And we were pretty darn good for high school kids which made it all the more fun. Aaahhhh the memories.....
@ldater Did the same thing in the late 70's.
I saw Maynard several times thru my HS years. Loved him!!!
He used to travel the country giving performances to groups of music students. He came to Western Maryland a couple of times during my school years. It really makes an impression on you that someone that great is willing to come to your Podunk town.
I love watching Ferguson's band because he puts on a good show and the people look like they are having a good time playing and then I watch buddy rich and the players look like they are cowering in fear and rich is just staring them all down.
Ahhh..yes. Rich wasn't a very pleasant guy to work for.
We looked afraid, but we were actually waiting for Buddy to turn around so we could attack him.
that's true , but NOBODY CAN'T BEAT Buddy version!
Maynard was a super nice guy.....
The best jazz trumpet player EVER....
Buddy is the best drummer EVER.....
Maynard Ferguson band was like a Cadillac but buddy Rich's band was like a Ferrari
yes, and I just watched a really bad Rich recording of Birdlands. Drummers should be no bandleaders. It makes things just worse
Reminds me of driving around in the snow in a 1978 Volkswagen Rabbit, with Birdland on the cassette player. Good times.
Just found this.....watched it 77'000 times in a row....how can you not?
When Maynard Ferguson came to my highschool in 1977, he was AMAZING! he got my younger brother to attend his summer camp to get professional training as a jazz musician! That year! MAYNARD was a life saving musician to our family!!
Unlike 7d mkb who drives tincan ritz
My father got me into him and I was lucky enough to see him twice in the early 2000's at my college and in NYC with my father. Great guy, great band
I was fortunate enough to be the announcer for Maynard's band during two broadcasts over the ABC and Armed Forces radio networks in the late Fifties, and can confirm it was easy and fun to work with him. At age nineteen I was still learning the ropes and, like Stan Kenton whose influence can be heard here, Maynard helped shape the more affirming side of my youth and personified for me the human element of the music business. I'm proud to say my eldest son Jon put me on to the present video, so the power of Maynard's music carries on to the next generation, in spades.--Dr. John-not-the-Tripper, 2019.
I love Stan Kenton too. My mother had his albums, that I listened to
What a cool story and opportunity. Maynard always seemed to have alot of love in heart and it showed in his music.
I love how happy this arrangement is compared to everyone else's. Maynard just wants to have fun!
How fucking AWESOME was that. What a great daily TH-cam video that popped in my feed today ! At 63 I’m still a fan . I saw Maynard in a little town in the middle of know where putting on a concert , Bonifay, Florida many many years ago. I was stationed at Fort Rucker Alabama at the time.
I've seen Maynard Ferguson in concert in a few high school auditoriums and at the Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia. In my opinion, the best performance was at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club in London, England. It was just a month or two before he died. The tables were full of horn players from the local music industry. You could tell because they were all flipping their first three fingers as the band was playing. Maynard was on fire and the joint was jumping. Maynard was a true hero of mine and I sorely miss his music.
This was a master of trumpet playing. Peace to you my brother Maynard ❤❤
Bombastic playing.
THIS is music, and a great band, and a great arrangement. Yes.
I love how at the end you can hear the Mike Douglas Show orchestra start playing their own Birdland, and it cuts off right as the sax rips a nasty lick!
I used to come home from school just in time to watch Mike Douglas the Merv Griffin Show just to hear their bands. Those were the good old days.
I love this iteration of Maynard. A little bigger, longer hair, cool glasses. The man had some style!
Wow. What can you say about Maynard? Fantastic. The band played this really well. Great arrangements. RIP. 😇One of the greatest trumpets to ever play.🎺👏
someone missed the like button, doesnt know hoo maynard ferguson is, or is jealous of the pure skill heard in this video!
2:58 - 3:21 is probably the best 23 seconds of any song I've ever heard, especially the transition at 3:03. Honestly, I must have listened to it nearly 100 times in the last 24hrs. It's been on repeat non stop. This arrangement is incredible!
I’ve listened to this enough times that I just took it for granted, but not that you pointed it out, wow! That’s crazy.
total agree!
That’s what keeps me coming back 😭😭
Love that bass too. True to Jaco’s legendary groove.
Exactly
0:50 omg the trumpets are so even with their sound! love it
Saw him in 1979 Mississippi Gulf Coast auditorium great show.
The first time that I heard Peter zErskine, was in Houston at a basement club called La Bastille with Stan Kenton. Stan introduced him pointing out 4:22 that he was 18. The next time I heard him he was on Maynard’s band playing Birdland Always a Smokin’ player.
A cassette recording of this song got me through USAF basic training back in 1978. OK, I'll admit: USAF basic training was easier than my H.S. marching band camp. But this was our theme song throughout those 6 weeks. Can I get a shout for my BMTS 3708th? Aw yeah.
I played trumpet all through school and Maynard was my hero ! RIP sir thanks for the music !
Maynard's band played at my high school twice during this time period. 35 years later, Joe Mosello (trumpeter on the left) is my nieces trumpet teacher.
AWESOME!
Jose is a sweet man and a god of a professional musician!!
I used to rush home from high school to catch Merv Griffin's and Mike Douglas's shows to hear their bands and see their guests. Those were the days: Maynard, Mel, Buddy, Clark, all the heavyweights were daytime guests! It was a golden time to be a music lover. In fact, I remember seeing this gig. Peter Erskine on drums is fantastic :)
Chal bey ...kuch bhi
I got to see Maynard’s last live concert, and he and the band was amazing as ever!
Saw Maynard Ferguson back in the early 2000s. What incredible energy and enthusiasm for his music!
When I was in high school band we worshipped Maynard. Years afterwards I managed to catch his band live and the audience was full of current high school band members. He was a mainstay. Wonder who they worship now?
The piccolo melody at the end is delightful! Nice touch.
John Novaria birdland
Ikr sounds like birds
He played a warmup note at 3:54
I was blessed to see Ferguson twice ( late 80 s then mid 90 s) and dam if it wasn't the best show I have ever seen. He was all about showcasing new talent and they did not disappoint.
Back in the early 70s I first saw him at a "Porfessional Day" job fair at our high school, and then again several times at Hamilton Place. His band, at that time, were all graduate students at universities around the country. Awesome musicians and performers!! Have always been a big fan!
This band plays wonderfully loose because MF is a nice guy and fantastic bandleader. Watch how he supports the players. He's having a great time in the process.
Absolutely love this! The keys, the horns - awesome music that simply isn’t made anymore.
It is so much better to have more joy in your band then anger. And so Maynard tops Rich in Birdland. - just look at the musicians as they play,
One of the greatest trumpet players of all times! I really miss him!
Heard Maynard and the band 3 times in the late 70s early 80s, they were incredible
Any version of this tune - AWESOME! 👍👍👍👍👍
Almost 5 years and this video hasn't hit 1 Million hits?? What is wrong with people???
LOL... Jazz guys don't care about hits? Sorry do you have uploads I am lazy to see if you have uploads
Now it’s been 10 years. Still not 1 mil.
There’s another recording by Maynard that has hit 1 mil views
@@ethanchaparro20 11 years now... quite disappointing
were getting there
I was lucky enough to see Weather Report in Ann Arbor MI when Jaco Pastorius was on bass and Peter Erskin was on drums. They blew the roof off the Michigan Theater for over two hours. One of the encore pieces was Birdland. The original version, written by them was on the album "Heavy Weather."
I love the sound of Peter Erskine's drums. Danny Seraphine played Slingerlands live about that time also. And who besides Peter can say he regularly played Birdland with two famous jazz groups.
So, wait - Was this before, after or during his stint in WR?
@@Dan-hc1owit would be before
I caught this exact band at a Long Island high school... Conquistador album. Those guys were tight.
HEY JUDE...JUST LIKE THE FERGUSON SONG! I really appreciate this man! I am a HUGE Maynard fan and even had a Maynard Ferguson Holton when I was in jazz band! Now I'm almost 60 and sick with leukemia and new to this internet stuff and thought"I'll see if perhaps..." and I find this! I remember this! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm feeling a little younger and just to hear Birdland live is so awesome! I can't thank you enough.
Good luck to you sir.
Best of luck to you, I hope you’re doing well.
@@pesty4592 HEY PESTY4592...Thank you for inquiring. I am still fighting. A little weaker, but still breathing in!(lol)
God's blessing to you and I can understand how Maynard could take you to a magical place through dark circumstances. Thanks for sharing.
Love the great Maynard Ferguson and one of the coolest version of Birdland I ever heard . Love Weather Report
Great version. When I go back and listen to the Carnival album (from which this comes) I am astounded how it hasn't aged at all. Good music is timeless.
Although I never saw this particular performance, it brings back a lot of good memories.
What. A. Band!
Wow! that bridge from 2:01 - 2:35 going into the tenor solo! I mean it's hard to top Weather Report, and then Manhattan Transfer's cover, but that bridge is an *AMAZING* moment of pure JAZZ that stands up with the best of the jazz/fusion during the 1970s. WOWZA
I saw MF a couple of times in the early 70's and it was the most exciting band I've ever heard. They did a number with the trumpet players spread out in the audience and Alan Downey, the guy with the Afro, stood two rows behind me. He was louder than my entire high school jazz ensemble. What incredible players!
This is a wonderful way to start the morning
I saw Maynard Ferguson back in the 80s at the Agora theater tickets were only $10 then I saw him at the front row theater awesome awesome awesome I'm a big fan
My wife and I had front row seats to see him at the Carlton West in Green Bay 1980 while she was about 8 months pregnant--I swear my ears are still ringing--our daughter did play trumpet in HS too!
Simplesmente maravilhoso. Grande mestre Maynard Ferguson. O Brasil conhece o Maynard Ferguson através da versão musical "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough", utilizada na abertura do programa de TV Video Show, da TV Globo, nos anos 80 e 90.
I've been listening to Maynard Ferguson, since the 1960s. He's one of my favorite jazz players.
Goddamn this just *_reeks_* of the 70's
This performance totally rocks!
This was "the dream team" baby!! Listen to these guys!! I heard this crew in 1977 @ Sunset H.S. in Portand Or. Loudest, strongest cleanest trumpet section i've ever heard! Oh yeah, then there's Maynard,,,soaring over all of them, pure air and sound. Whew. Often imitated never duplicated. ❤️
Me too! Loved that superbone. One of the best days of my life.
I saw Maynard's band in 1975 in Peabody Mass and was hooked. I saw his band several times between the 70s and. 90s I remember seeing his daughter sitting on the sidelines reading a romance novel!
I had the pleasure of hearing Maynard live once in Denver. My ears are still ringing! I anticipated trouble when I saw a trombone player putting in ear plugs. I'm sure they had it turned up to 11 (or 12).
That is awesome Mikey . We played this chart in Stage Band in High School.
Strong Vincent High School in Erie ,PA.
1973-1976.
We saw Maynard’s band live in those years a few times . To be in the audience was a real experience. You could feel the excitement and the music hitting you . I played Tenor Sax.
That bass is KNOCKING
+Trey Barnes Also a Moog.
Freakin' analog kicks butt
The trumpets screaming
yeah i like the way the moog sometimes doubles the bass.
That bass is soooo loud! I LOVE IT!!!
great arrangement! Energetic, creative and surprising! And great musicians
I saw May are and his band do this in ‘79 at the university of Calgary. The guys came on stage, sat down, Maynard came in last and 5 seconds later this was blowing our minds! Unforgettable!
That keyboardist is doing an amazing job
I saw Maynard & his band at a high school in West Virginia in the 70s . I was blown away.
Bearded trumpet player second from the right blows a dandy High G at 3:20. Just one of many he probably played on most of his gigs way back when. He sorta gets a chance to prepare and windup for it. "Cherry picking high notes" we used to call it...
In some of these charts it is the 2nd, 3rd and 4th chairs that make for a difficult night. Both physically and emotionally. It can be really hard to hear your own sound underneath the higher notes the lead player is constantly blowing. That is IF these lower chair trumpet players really want to be heard. Most of the ones I work with on a semi pro to pro level don't really put enough air behind the horn. In a perfect world the lower chairs would pretend they're on lead. Blowing the fourth book with the same intensity as the lead player.
Just my 2 cents!
I often play 3rd or 4th trumpet in two big bands and I got used to the fact that I contantly can't hear myself and after so much time only playing in big bands I started playing in an orchestra as the only trumpet and I first had to get used to the fact that I CAN constantly HEAR myself now.
+Rondo Anderson
Disguised name. Not a particularly famous cat but then who is lol? Not when Britney Speares gets chosen for fame at age seven.
Using a pseudonym is useful. Most of your trumpet forums are filled with idiots. Pushing the same,- tired obsolete concepts like "faster air for high notes". So? I keep my name to myself. I could be a heavy player or some skinny twelve year punk with a bad attitude. Or maybe I'm your little sister keeping track of which websites you visit on the net.
Btw: For some reason the lead player, Stan Mark isn't going for the High G that is the third note from the beginning. It should start with,
First ledger line B Natural,
D second ledger line.
High G fourth ledger line but he doesn't play the rise
I hear him or someone else blowing the High E in the second passage but no one on the G. Stan did have a good G and I'd heard him blow plenty of them back in the day. Perhaps in this recording he was still getting used to Lynn N leaving the band.
Back in the 1970's Maynard's trumpet section was not always filled with screamers. In general he had two. The lead and a guy like Nicholson. Then there would be a guy like Bob Summers or Don Hahn who was more noted for playing jazz.
At the end of his life he was carrying only two trumpet players besides himself. Usually Pat Hessions and Seraphim Aguillar. Both of these cats had the screamers.
+Rondo Anderson
Bearded trumpet player on Stan's left nails a nice G at 3:21. Not sure who he is. Mosello would be a good guess. He appears to be the "high nte guy" in the section. Stan Mark was playing the lead book but various other cats would assist him in the stratospheric notes. Lynn Nicholson being one of them during the year of 197.
Back in 1975 pr so I observed Guiseppe Mosello on the band and he was nailing nice Double C's and whatnot. Then just six months later? He was really working! You could see him looking all stressed out. That's why it never bothers me when a good lead player joins a band that I'm in. More the merrier. It's only the really immature types who insist on gobbling up all the lead and high note parts for themselves.
Part of the reason those traveling big bands carried some many trumpet players was because of the tendency of road life to burn out lead players. Stan Kenton carried FIVE trumpets. The third played all the scream parts. Third trumpet in fact was Maynard's position on the band back in 1952. Buddy Childers blew lead. The Kenton biography "Artistry In Rhythm" tells fascinating stories about how difficult that it was to blow the lead book CONSISTENTLY! Lead player Tom Baker mentioned that on the Kenton band that one day he "had to pick out the dried blood from his mouthpiece and break open a scab on his lip just to get a note out of the thing". That was a heavy HEAVY Kenton band too. What with Jim Karchner on the "scream chair". It is alleged that Karchner's Double C was better than most trumpet player's High C's.
Lin Biviano mentions "consistency being of utmost importance" in his teachings too.
LIke some five years ago a bandleader (somewhere in California) came up to me and asked of I would yield half the lead book to a cat who used to be the lead player. I didn't really need anyone to help me but I posted no resistance to the leader's request. Then six months later I developed a nasty infection inside my upper lip due to a cold sore. Couldn't get even one note out of the horn for a whole week!
It was at that time that I really appreciated having a guy next to me with some solid high note chops. It saved the band!
+Jorge Callico
oh my god... you sound so dumb, come back down with us, it is not 4:20 yet
+Jorge Callico from my experience, (im not a trumpet player i play bari, shoutout to all bari,) usually in the bands i play in the first and second players blow the high stuff during the main melody and the third and fourth play the easy stuff and then the first and seconds back off and let them play the really screamy stuff at the end. this is actually what my main man maynard did with his band.
Played this in high school band back in the 90's lol brings back memories for sure!!!
That's Biff Hannon on the Rhodes, I believe. This is pretty close to the band I saw in '78 in Youngstown, Ohio. I attended a really nice jazz clinic with Maynard at Slippery Rock not long before this. What a super, super guy. Rest in peace, Maynard, you were a massive part of my high school jazz life!
Biff 🤘🏻
I sent Maynard play at my high school . He was great. My ears were ringing for a few days
Nice performance!! As Maynard would say, "Yeah!!"
I saw Maynard Ferguson and his band at Seattle's Paramount theater in the late '70's. A memorable experience.
I'm so glad I've found the polite add ide of youtube.
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Awesome!!!! We played this track in jazz band back in 95! Our Jazz band was a force to be reckoned with.... we did very well in awards, we we're asked to open many business in our town which we thought was cool😁🍻 but this track we JAMMED! Our band was controllable loud and soft when needed...... I just haven't seen a band come out if that school since like that one..... it was one that worked! Every now and then ya get lucky and CLICK!
Can we talk about the fact that they where all high and drunk when they did this and they were this good
Kris V badass
Some were high. But not all. As much as I admire Stan Mark? My guess is that he was hitting the beer pretty good back then. Regardless he still ran a strong section. At this point in time he was the only member of the band whom I'd known and met. Stan was always very approachable. Even til today I think that he likes to help other musicians.
I saw Maynard at least a dozen times over about 35 years. One of the times Stan was actually imbibing on stage was a performance somewhere in Beverly Mass. Their arrangement of Stevie Wonder's "Livin For The City" was one of the most moving pieces I've ever heard.
How else do you show up to a gig
@@313KungFuKenny love of producing music is top with all, i think
See, I saw them back in ‘78. Music and Camraderie was the #1 thing. You had to be the artist and not let it get in the way. Otherwise ... But if you’re young and it’s part of your artistry and you can burn when it counts? No judgment. *** They were amazing; in fact, technically unrepeatable. The spirit easily shines through the source limitations
Brings back many a memory.
I believe the year was nineteen hundy and eighty two the first time I was blown away!
I’m surprised I still have my hearing all these years later after cranking my sweet cassette tapes in my Honda civic. 😆
You correct, Eric Traub on Tenor. I was playing at a club in Houston about 1980. “Rockefeller’s originally a bank. Those three Eric, MIGS and Bobby Militello. Great sax section!
So 1970's. I love it!
Maynard's trumpet is out of sight, all encompassing, and great.
I heard them in 1988. Still get chills
Outstanding
this BASSSSSS
A classic performance! Done very well!!
LOVE THIS!!! Thanks I hadn’t heard this version in decades!
sounds like something blood sweat and tears would do it!
I met the bassist Gordon Johnson when he toured with Chuck Mangione for his “Love Notes” album. If I remember correctly, he also sang “Children of Sanchez.” Nice guy.
Hey! No sheet music in the ensemble. Impressive!
There is music on the very low stands ...watch again and you will see those!
Now THAT is some real energy! Thanks for posting this!~