#maynard ferguson

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1954 - Dinah Washington Live Jazz Jam Session and Recording Session for EmArcy Records - Hollywood

Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet : Clifford Brown (tp), Harold Land (ts), Richie Powell (p), George Morrow (b), Max Roach (dr)

Guests : Clark Terry (tp), Maynard Ferguson (tp), Herb Geller (as), Junior Mance (p), Keter Betts (b)

[oldshowbiz]

Theme song from a TV show you've never heard of nor seen.

[garadinervi]

Chris Connor and Maynard Ferguson, Double Exposure, (Vinyl/LP), 8049, Atlantic, 1961

Cover Design: Loring Eutemey Photography: Lee Friedlander

(via Hugh Miller)

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 03.30.25

Tim Hecker Shards (kranky) Jacob Kirkegaard Snowblind (Helen Scarsdale) Pette Shabu Sprak (Bandcamp) Inner Ear Brigade Rainbro (Altrock) Squid Cowards (Warp) Roland Kirk The Classic 1960s albums (Enlightenment) Maynard Ferguson The Roulette Collection (Enlightenment) Jacob Mann Big Band Greatest Hits Vols 1, 2 and 3 (Bandcamp) Sulla Lingua On (Improved Sequence) Chuck Bettis Revolutionary Optimism (Living Myth) Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Katinka Kliejn, Seth Parker Woods, Anna Thorvaldsdottir Ubique (Sono Luminus) Imelda Marcos AGITA (Already Dead) Model Actriz Early Singles (Bandcamp) ROR (Gy›a Valt‡sdóttir & Úlfur) AUGA (Sono Luminus)

[krispyweiss]

“A Great Loss:” Saxophonist David Sanborn Dies at 78

Saxophonist David Sanborn, who recorded smooth jazz as a solo artist and toured and recorded with David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan and others as a sideman, has died.

“May the great David Sanborn rest in love and peace,” Rundgren’s Spirit of Harmony Foundation said.

Sanborn, 78, died May 12 of complications from prostate cancer, said a post on his Facebook page. The saxophonist had continued performing since his 2018 diagnosis and “already had concerts scheduled into 2025,” the post read.

“David Sanborn was a seminal figure in contemporary pop and jazz music,” the announcement read. “It has been said that he put the saxophone back into rock ‘n’ roll.”

Fernando Perdomo echoed this sentiment, crediting Sanborn with “defin(ing) the sax’s role in pop and rock in the ’70s and ’80s.”

Questlove recalled being “floored” by a Sanborn show in Colorado, where the saxophonist made the drummer “feel like a complete amateur” despite playing an instrument that requires a significant amount of oxygen at altitude.

“He told me that since being diagnosed with cancer, he got a renewed vigor … and decided henceforth to play like his life depended on it,” Questlove said. “Amen, David. Rest in melody.”

Sanborn played Woodstock with the Butterfield Blues Band and went on to a career that included more than two dozen solo albums, gigs with the “Late Night with David Letterman” and “Saturday Night Live” bands and collaborations with Bowie, Rundgren, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, B.B. King, Maynard Ferguson, Linda Ronstadt, Elton John and others.

“RIP, David S.,” Eric Clapton said.

The members of Spyro Gyra found themselves “shocked and beyond sad” at the news, while band leader Jay Beckenstein eulogized Sanborn as “a truly great saxophonist and musician, one of the most influential of my lifetime and an artist who had an extraordinary ability to play emotionally.

“Whatever he touched, whether jazz, gospel or pop, his approach was beautiful and powerful,” Beckenstein said. “A great loss."

5/13/24

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[hezigler]

Theme From Star Trek

Big band Jazz version of the theme music from the original Star Trek series.

[jazzdailyblog]

The Slide Hampton Story: A Trombonist Extraordinaire

Introduction: Slide Hampton, born Locksley Wellington Hampton ninety-two years ago today on April 21, 1932, in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, is a name synonymous with excellence in jazz. His remarkable career as a trombonist, composer, and arranger has left an indelible mark on the world of music. Often heralded as one of the greatest jazz trombonists of all time, Hampton’s contributions to the genre…

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