Maynard Ferguson came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957.
17 Facts About Maynard Ferguson
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Maynard Ferguson won a scholarship to the Conservatoire de musique du Quebec a Montreal where he studied from 1943 to 1948 with Bernard Baker.
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In 1948, Maynard Ferguson moved to the United States, intending to join Stan Kenton's band, but it no longer existed, so Maynard Ferguson played with the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, and Charlie Barnet.
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In 1953, Maynard Ferguson left Kenton and spent the next three years as principal trumpet for Paramount Pictures.
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In 1959, Maynard Ferguson was a guest with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Bernstein, performing Symphony No 2 in C "Titans" by William Russo.
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In 1967, as the Millbrook experiment was ending, Maynard Ferguson moved his family to India and taught at the Krishnamurti-based Rishi Valley School near Madras.
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Maynard Ferguson moved to New York City in 1973, then relocated to Ojai, California less than two years later.
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In 1975, Maynard Ferguson began working with Bob James on a series of commercially successful albums with large groups of session musicians, including strings, vocalists, and guest soloists.
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In mid-1976, Maynard Ferguson performed a solo trumpet piece for the closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Montreal, symbolically "blowing out the flame".
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Maynard Ferguson recorded three big band albums with smaller labels before forming High Voltage, a fusion septet, in 1986.
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In 1973, Maynard Ferguson settled in Ojai, California, where he lived to the end of his life.
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Maynard Ferguson died as a result of kidney and liver failure, on August 23,2006, at the Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, California.
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Maynard Ferguson was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003.
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In 1950,1951, and 1952, Maynard Ferguson won the DownBeat Readers' Poll for best trumpeter.
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Maynard Ferguson plays a special solo trumpet piece as part of the closing ceremonies for the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, the XXI Olympiad, 1976.
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In 2000, Maynard Ferguson was initiated as a brother of Kappa Kappa Psi at the Gamma Xi Chapter.
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Maynard Ferguson had been initiated as an honorary member of the Fraternity's Xi Chi Chapter at Tennessee Tech University in 1976.