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Rams
08-25-2006, 01:07 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/25/obit.ferguson.ap/index.html

I saw him play live a couple of months ago in New Orleans. He was an absolute beast on the trumpet, playing in the upper register at a blistering speed.
Zappa
08-25-2006, 01:11 PM
Sad stuff. This is the first one I care about lately.
bigbadsnowman
08-25-2006, 01:38 PM
I loved Maynard Ferguson's work.

:-(

RIP
bigbadsnowman
08-27-2006, 01:27 AM
It was really cool. Just tonight Leigh Keimann(sp?) had alittle tribute to Maynard in his radio show.
Rams
08-27-2006, 11:26 AM
I guess I should have realized no one listens to any non-Kind of Blue jazz.
moogoogaipan
08-27-2006, 01:44 PM
I saw him play live a couple of months ago in New Orleans. He was an absolute beast on the trumpet, playing in the upper register at a blistering speed.

I don't know where exactly you live, but my cousins church hosted him a couple months ago. They are across the lake in Mandeville, but they said that he was so demanding of everything.
He wanted full steak dinners for his whole ensemble
an ironing board
a crate full of bottled water
on top of the $5,000 that his ensemble was getting for that evening.
Daniel!
08-27-2006, 02:34 PM
That's pretty sad. He came to my high school a few years ago and played for two hours with his band. He had to have an oxygen tank backstage to make it through the show, but he didn't miss a note that night.
jake plays guitar
08-27-2006, 08:09 PM
well maybe trumpeters will start playing less loud and use there entire range now. just joking, its a shame hes gone.
Jody LeCompte
08-29-2006, 02:38 AM
Wow...

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I'm sad now. :upset:
DavidB92
09-02-2006, 07:05 AM
well maybe trumpeters will start playing less loud and use there entire range now. just joking, its a shame hes gone.

Not gonna happen. :p
joas
09-03-2006, 02:43 AM
mike vax had a tribute to him at the prescott jazz festival last weekend, him and jack petersen played send in the clowns (which vax sure enough called danny boy instead.. oh well)
GhostNote
09-04-2006, 09:36 AM
Wow man, thats a sad happening right there. It always gets me upset when jazz greats any great musician for that matter, dies. You just want them to live on and continue their doings, y'know. My best wishes go out to his family and friends. RIP
zackr
09-20-2006, 08:12 AM
Oh no! *Puts on Chameleon in tribute* RIP