New Sound of Maynard Ferguson

Maynard Ferguson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fresh Sounds Spain
• ASIN: B000050SJ8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,793 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Chicago

2. Gravy Waltz

3. Cherokee

4. One O'Clock Jump

5. Bossa Nova de Funk

6. Whisper Not

7. Take the "A" Train

8. At the Sound of the Trumpet

9. Maine Bone

10. Watermelon Man

11. Danny Boy

12. Groove

13. Country Boy

14. We've Got a World That Swings

15. Naked City Theme

16. Blues for a Four String Guitar

17. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

18. New Hope

19. Come Blow Your Horn

20. Antony and Cleopatra Theme

Customer Reviews

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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a very tasty set of albums!!!!!, January 21, 2005

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Screamplayer (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Sound of Maynard Ferguson (Audio CD)

The New Sounds Of The Maynard Ferguson Orchestra is a very tasty album. The CD release actually features two of Maynard's original LP's all on one CD. The first is called "Come Blow Your Horn." The Second is called "The New Sounds Of Maynard Ferguson." The best tracks that stick out are "Danny Boy", and "Bossa Nova De Funk." I also like Alex North's, "Theme from Antony and Cleopatra." I loved the original album cover, the one with Ferguson sitting under the tree playing his horn with the dog standing by him!! These are originally released on the old Cameo Parkway label, which is now defunct. A very worthy purchase!!!!!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get it while it's in print, December 10, 2006

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Steve Frazier (Seattle) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: New Sound of Maynard Ferguson (Audio CD)

Maynard Ferguson had a long recording career for many different labels and availability of his various albums has been spotty at best -- they have gone in and out of print over the past few years, so it's worth getting them while they are available.

This CD is interesting as it contains two albums Maynard recorded for the Camden label in 1964. It fills an interesting gap in the Maynard works available as I write this -- you can buy the "Birdland Dream Band" album from 1956, but most of his work from 1957 through early 1964 was on the Roulette label and those albums aren't current available (there was a Mosaic box set issued several years ago; used copies sell for many hundreds of dollars today). Likewise, his other mid-60's albums -- which were recorded on Mainstream -- appear to be available only in digital version.

So -- if you want to hear Maynard in his mid-60's form -- this album (which appears to be imported from Spain) is worth getting while you can. it's good, "small" big band jazz, and similar to what you get on the other Maynard albums of the time. For the most part it's swinging, straight-ahead jazz, with a number of high-note trumpet features for Maynard and some tasty solos by some of his talented sidemen.

If you only know Maynard's later work (from the 70's, 80's or 90's), which had more jazz/rock and pop stuff mixed into it, you owe it to yourself to get this and/or "Birdland Dream Band" to sample his earlier work.