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Maynard! Still A Guiding Light

This May 4th Maynard would have been 93 years young. I say “young” because if you knew Maynard at all, you know he never ran out of energy and enthusiasm. And stories. Maynard did all the things a person could dream of and was really focused on seeking out the next musical adventure and (with...

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Big Bop Nouveau

Big Bop Nouveau – Reissue

1989’s modern bebop-drenched big band music. In the late 1980s, Maynard Ferguson took a break from his highly successful fusion band, High Voltage, and returned to an all-star assemblage of horn players for his 60th Birthday Big Band Tour. Never one to rest on his laurels, MF and band entered the state of the art...

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Body & Soul – Reissue

Maynard 1986 Re-Invention. After the release of 1983’s Storm, and the following year’s Live From San Francisco, Maynard Ferguson was on a creative roll. When Body & Soul appeared in 1986, Ferguson himself said “It’s my best album in many years! Bear in mind, this is music we’ve worked on for some time, re-designing it...

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