Is there something vulgar about a man in a bright jumpsuit, a long scarf around his massive neck, screeching out a tragic opera theme on a highly amplified trumpet? This seems clear to me now, in ...

What would the holidays be without brass. Here are a bunch of recently posted YouTube clips of Maynard Ferguson in action, including Christmas for Moderns, an Ed Sullivan Show performance in 1960 and ...

The Dave Banks Big Band comes to Blu Jazz+ on September 20 for an exciting night of Latin Jazz. Featuring the music of Dizzy ...

Sadly, Maynard Ferguson does not get nearly enough credit for being a bandleader and brass player of the highest order. Though somewhat commercially successful in his latter years and increasingly ...

It's a wearying life: a concert in South Carolina one night, followed by a late-night drive to Miami, a midday arrival at a hotel, then another concert that night before heading north. At 76, he still ...

Maynard touched the lives of musicians around the world in a way that cannot be explained but celebrated Trumpet player friend and personal manager Steve Schankman worked with Maynards family and ...

Maynard Ferguson, who died Wednesday at 78, was a veteran trumpeter and bandleader best known for delivering stratospheric high notes, rock-concert-level volume, and sheer excitement in equal ...