Walter Maynard Ferguson, best know for his extreme high register control on trumpet, was a Canadian jazz trumpet player and bandleader. Born in Verdun, Quebec (now part of Montreal) Maynard by the age of four was playing piano and violin but at 9 years of age he switched to cornet. At age thirteen, Maynard first soloed as a child prodigy with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra and was heard frequently on the CBC, notably featured on a “Serenade for Trumpet in Jazz” written for him by Morris Davis. Maynard won a scholarship to the French Conservatory of Music where he studied from 1943 through 1948 with Bernard Baker. Maynard dropped out of Montreal High School at age 15 to more actively pursue a music career, performing in dance bands led by Stan Wood, Roland David, and Johnny Holmes. During this period, Maynard came to the attention of numerous American bandleaders and began receiving offers to come to the United States. Maynard moved to the United States in 1949 and initially played with the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, and Charlie Barnet. The Barnet band was notable for a trumpet section that also included Doc Severinsen, Ray Wetzel, Johnny Howell, and Rolf Erickson. When Barnet temporarily retired in 1949 and disbanded his orchestra, Maynard was free to accept an offer to join Stan Kenton’s newly formed Innovations Orchestra, a 40-piece jazz concert orchestra with strings. While the Innovations Orchestra was not commercially successful, it made a number of remarkable recordings, including “Maynard Ferguson,” one of a series of pieces named after featured soloists. When Kenton returned to a more practical 19-piece jazz band, Maynard continued with him. So popular was Maynard with Kenton that for three years running, 1950, 1951, and 1952, he won the Down Beat Readers’ Poll as best trumpeter. In 1953, Maynard left Kenton to become a first-call session player for Paramount Pictures. Ferguson appeared on 46 soundtracks including The Ten Commandments. Ferguson still recorded jazz during this period, but his Paramount contract prevented him from playing jazz clubs. While he enjoyed the regular paycheck, Ferguson was very unhappy with the lack of live performance opportunities and left Paramount in 1956. In 1956, Maynard was tapped to lead the Birdland Dream Band, a 14-piece big band formed by Morris Levy as an “all-star” lineup to play at Levy’s Birdland jazz club in New York City. While the name “Birdland Dream Band” was short-lived and is represented by only two albums, this band became the core of Maynard’s performing band for the next nine years. Following the path taken by many jazz artists in the 1960s, Ferguson left the United States. Feeling that he needed a period of spiritual exploration. Maynard formed a new band and it made its North American debut in 1971. Maynard latched on to the burgeoning jazz education movement by recruiting talented musicians from colleges with jazz programs and targeting young audiences with performances and master classes in high schools. This practical and strategic move helped him develop a strong following that would sustain him for the remainder of his career. In 1988, Maynard formed the group Big Bop Nouveau, a nine-piece band featuring three trumpets, one trombone, two reeds and a three-piece rhythm section. The band’s repertoire included original jazz compositions and modern arrangements of jazz standards, with occasional pieces from his ’70s book and the Birdland Dream Band; this format proved to be successful with audiences and critics. In 1992, he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame. Just days after completing a weeklong run at New York’s Blue Note and recording a studio album in New Jersey, Maynard developed an abdominal infection that resulted in kidney and liver failure. Ferguson died on the evening of August 23, 2006 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, California.
Maynard gives Birdland a whirl… and it is good. Of course! My cuz played bass with Maynard for a good while.
John Abercrombie’s ECM debut ‘Timeless’ (recorded 1974) has proven to be exactly that. This fiery session with Jack DeJohnette and Jan Hammer still sounds as fresh as the year it was released. “Timeless comes as a major surprise in terms of its depth, scope and inventiveness,” wrote Tim Buckley’s guitarist Lee Underwood in the L.A. Free Press. “[It] indicates that John Abercrombie is a major musical voice of tomorrow.”
This wonderful man was cousin Rick’s roommate in college and I am therefore quite sure that a heckuva lot of sweet, sweet music filled the air over there. I was saddened to learn that the lad has passed and some time ago, too. But his music is immortal, a gift to us all for all time.
Man, I very often hate being a g. d. hermit. I am trying to be better, with limited success, but learning of this reality made me sad.
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From the second album, A Piece of the Apple, released in 1976… track number 4.
Bruce Johnstone: Baritone Sax, Alto Sax, Flute
Rick Petrone: Electric Bass, Phaser Bass
Joe Corsello: Drums and Percussion
Ron Friedman: Trumpet, Electric Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Robert Aries: Electric Piano, Synthesizer
After touring the world with Maynard, Rick got together with some buds to form the group New York Mary, pioneering the way in and for the just-invented niche of jazz-fusion and hoo doggy did they do it well!
Sadly, the big wigs at the record label are the ultimate authority on who lives and dies musically and I guess my heroes didn’t sell enough platters for their liking, so they cut the boys off after just two albums.
Farging bastiges.
I mean, really.
Money. It’s all only about tje money. I hate the stuff, personally. It causes pain. In the world our species has created one absolutely needs it, but I hate it nonetheless.
from a live performance in Orange County, California — circa 1974
Been talking to Rick a lot lately as he has very kindly taken the reigns, (along with his awesome daughter JamiePetrone*), of the service and obituary part of Aunt Clare’s proceedings. This is a more profound thing than you might be thinking because my mind was knocked off the rails so far that the angels are still using cranes and such to upright it. I want to get it in today because tomorrow is hip surgery day for Rick. Good Lord, it never ends for any of us, does it?
I have not experienced something that compares in power to this. I am still far from normal and have a really difficult time being alone. And I do mean difficult. Fortunately and thankfully there are multiple angels that have been keeping me afloat. Rick and Jamie are among them. They know not just exactly how deeply I love them.
Here’s a bit more on Rick… the man has had some fabulous experiences… and the beat goes on!
From Rick Petrone Interview – December 2005
Rick Petrone played bass during what is considered by some to be Maynard’s most popular and creative period…the early and mid 1970s. Those that saw Rick play as part of Maynard’s band in concert undoubtedly remember his extended solo on La Fiesta. Since leaving Maynard’s band, Rick has had a successful and creative career. With the current release of Maynard’s “At The Top” DVD (which features Rick) as well as a new CD featuring Rick (see below for details), it seemed like a good time to talk to Rick and catch up.
Let’s start with your musical background. Can you tell us about your musical education?I began as a violinist (horrible) moved to acoustic bass at 10, started playing gigs at 11 (no lie). Did the usual H.S. things in music. I was basically self taught until I went to Berklee 1964-69 and roomed with guitarist John Abercrombie, who was a friend from my hometown in Greenwich, CT. There I was one of 5 bass players (over 100 these days). I also met Lin Biviano and played in his Maynard band at Berklee. This band met every Saturday and little did I know where it would lead. In 1968 I was fortunate to study and play with trombonist Phil Wilson who recommended me for Buddy Rich’s band. The band needed a fill-in for a few months while bassist Bob Magnusson dealt with some Viet Nam war problems. I stayed on for about 6 months and had blast. Buddy and I actually became friends and I saw him many times when I was on the MF band and we played on the same bill. I went back to school, graduated with a BA in Music and went on the road with the Glenn Miller band & then the Tommy Dorsey Band, both ghost bands by that time of course in 1969.
I had also gone to Berklee with old friend Joe Corsello from Stamford, CT. He recommended me to Marian Mac Partland and I joined and stayed with her for 1970 & early ’71. With her I got to play with Chuck Mangione, Sarah Vaughan, Jackie & Roy, drummer Mickey Roker, pianist Duke Jordan and Ralph Towner (when they filled in for her).
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
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“A man should look for what is and not for what he thinks should be.”
— Albert Einstein
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“If Jesus were alive today the last thing he would be is a Christian.”
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— Charles Hoy Fort
Do you understand that this is exactly true and is in fact exactly what is going on all around you at this very moment? DO you? Alrighty, then. We’re good.
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I weep for the future of this once great country.
The truth is often found in the strangest places.
Note that the key caveat is the phrase “based upon current knowledge.”
“If you knew the magnificence of the three, six and nine, you would have a key to the universe.”
— Nikola Tesla
“In the topography of intellection, I should say that what we call knowledge is ignorance surrounded by laughter.”
— Charles Hoy Fort
When Albert Einstein was asked what it was like to be the smartest man in the world, Einstein replied, “I don’t know. Why don’t you ask Nikola Tesla?”
“The eyes are useless if the mind is blind.”
The Golden Rule – Those who have the gold; rule.
Early Warnings are rare.
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
— Franklin Delano “Let Amelia Earhart Die” Roosevelt
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“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
— Henry Ford
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
— Voltaire
There are two things that define you – what you do when it doesn’t matter and what you do when it’s all that matters.
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
— Albert Pike
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“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“I do not mind being called a “Conspiracy Theorist” by those who don’t mind being called “Coincidence Theorists.”
— John Judge
“When you take a metaphor as historical fact you have anchored yourself deep in the waters of intolerance.”
— Augustus Masonicus
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate tireless minority keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.”
— Samuel Adams
“It’s all fun-and-games until the flying monkeys show up.”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Non cogitoergo extraterrestrialis.
I want to believe… but some of you people are nuts.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“One measures a circle beginning anywhere.”
— Charles Hoy Fort
“You have to systematically create confusion—it sets creativity free.. Everything that is contradictory creates life.”
— Salvador Dalí
Check your six and maintain angles; lest the earth rise up to smite thee.
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— Hunter S. Thompson
“Inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist.”
— George Carlin
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— John Wooden
I am what you fear most. I am what you made me. I am anarchy
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Those Pyongyang idiots have a test success rate that only a Chicago public high school could possibly envy.”
“Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life. End over end neither left nor to right.”
“Without the idealists among it’s leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact … Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.”
— Oswald Spengler (1880-1936)
“The goal of socialism is communism.”
— Vladimir Lenin
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— Edmund Burk
Free men are not equal; and equal men are not free
“…we are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.”
— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
“Why would a lake plant blow up my camp?”
“It doesn’t like you.”
A trail goes two ways and looks different in each direction.
There is no such thing as a timid woodland creature
Whatever does not kill you leaves you a survivor
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— Aristotle
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— Albert Einstein
“Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesn’t go away.”
— Philip K. Dick
And
“Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.”
— Dr. Richard Feynman
Yes, I still have no bananas.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie and thus by extension the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” [Falsely attributed to Josef Göbbels]
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Sometimes courage is
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“That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.”
— Bill Watterson
A distinguished economist recently noted:
“Right now we have stepped off the cliff and are caught in this sort of “Wile E. Coyote” moment where we are just waiting for gravity to notice us.”
“When I was a young boy, I couldn’t reach the doorbell. A pastor came up behind me and pressed it for me.
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Note: We are notfree here in America: To wit:
“Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.”
— George W. Bush
and while we’re at it…
“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants. But debt is the money of slaves.”
— Norm Franz
and
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking to annihilate truth.”
— Garry Kasparov
“Give me control over a nation’s currency and I care not who makes it’s laws.”
— Mayer Amschel Rothschild 1743 – 1812 Note:
He got that control and his family still has it.
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale…. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows liberty decreases.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“Be who God meant you to be, and you will set the world on fire.”
— St. Catherine of Siena
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“Truth is the greatest enemy of the state”
[Falsely attributed to Josef Goebbels]
“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
[Falsely attributed to Josef Mengele]
“Poverty therefore is a thing created by that which is called civilized life. It exists not in the natural state.”
— Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice, 1797
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Rural people will become Serfs is what the USAToday printed a few days back. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/05/23/killing-electoral-college-means-rural-americans-would-be-serfs-column/3770424002/...
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Officials in the Yukon's most northern community have declared a state of emergency, saying the traditional way of life in Old Crow is under threat. "It's going to be the blink...
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Blue Shift
“Now let me bring you up to speed …. we know nothing …. You are now up to speed.”
— Inspector Jacques-Yves Clouseau
When life looks like easy street there is danger at your door
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Some of us look to the universe with a profound sense of peace and belonging. Is that because we truly understand we are made of Star Stuff?”
– Dr. Carl Sagan 1934-1996 American astronomer, educator, science popularizer, marijuana advocate and a hero of mine
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British artillery officer, archaeologist and explorer.
“Our” event, as described in the image above, took place in 1907 in the Reserva Territorial Madre de Dios, Peru.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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— Nikola Tesla
— Thrilled that this work has begun!
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