Biography of maynard ferguson
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Jonathan Butler’s optimistic music belies a dirt-poor childhood growing up in a South Africa segregated by apartheid. Live in South Africa, a new CD and DVD package, presents a sense of the resulting inner turmoil, mixed with dogged resolve, that paved the way to his status as an icon in his country and successful musician outside of it. Looking back, the 46-year-old Butler says today, the driving forces that led to his overcoming apartheid-the formal policy of racial separation and economic discrimination finally dismantled in 1993-were family, faith and abundant talent.
“When we were kids, our parents never talked about the ANC [African National Congress] or Nelson Mandela,” he says. Butler was raised as the youngest child in a large family. They lived in a house patched together by corrugated tin and cardboard, in the “coloreds only” township of Athlone near Cape Town. “They never talked about struggles so we never knew what was happening.”
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-Maynard Ferguson
“He was about the music. He breathed it, lived it, and set an example by his actions about what he wanted out of music. He had set such high standards for himself, and by his living up to his own standards he affected everyone he came in contact with in a positive way.”
-- Peter Olstad (Band alumnus)
“I heard him (Maynard) warming up and I tell you, I wish every trumpet player who ever lived could have heard what he sounded like. I don’t know why I kept playing after that. Just the warm-up alone was absolutely frightening and then, of course, the gig came around and he did it all over again.”
-Doc Severinsen
“He asked if I was a trumpet player and before I knew it had me laying down on a table and was talking about breathing and yoga.”
-Student attending a Masterclass
Walter Maynard Ferguson (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He first came to prominence while playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra. After his stint with Kenton, Ferguson spent three years as first-call studio trumpeter for Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. He recorded the soundtracks for many movies including Cecil B. De Mille’s spectacular The Ten Commandments. In 1955 he
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Maynard Ferguson, Broadcast Player, bandleader
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