Legacy of Maynard Ferguson Celebrated in new Book

The printed word has greater certainty of permanence than oral history. The difficulties of bookstores, or any other, has created a kind of sub-market, where projects seen as commercial risk become a labor of love. In this case, is publishing a collection of interviews of interesting bandleader and trumpeter Maynard Ferguson (pictured), compiled and written by a producer of jazz long time, Ralph Jungheim. The book has no visual appeal, but the stories and testimonies are consistent, even if you're not a fan of trumpet pyrotechnics.

Among the companions of Maynard, showing his admiration, are Bud Shank, Mundell Lowe, Irene Kral, Peter Erskine, Lanny Morgan, Don Menza, Lew Tabackin, Shelly Manne, among others. Yes, some of these names, as the object of homage, are no longer with us. Jungheim explains that taped interviews in 1978, when a performance of Maynard and his group in Santa Monica, California. After his wife trancrever the countless hours of interviews. Jungheim hoped to publish the interviews, but received no interest from major publishers. "So I kept them in a box and for a long time, I forgot," said Jungheim. "Sometimes when I picked up and reread." He was the son of Jungheim that led him to do something with the archived material. "I fought cancer for a period of two and a half, and my son suggested that I make an eBook and finally the thing came out," recalls Jungheim. He finally managed to edit the book, which can be found at the site of fans and Ferguson in "Amaxon. Maynard! "Is available also in" Buster Ann Music "Jungheim and" Simon & Schuster.

Interestingly, Jungheim disks Reviewed links to JazzTimes and in 1997 wrote about an authorized biography written by Bill Ferguson Lee And you can read an emotional tribute to the leader of one of their most prominent pupils, Peter Erskine, who greeted him on the issue March 2007 as part of the section of farewells. I demonstrated the Jungheim my disappointment about the absence in the book of my favorite story about Maynard, who appears in the seminal "Jazz Anecdotes" by Bill Crow. Ferguson was touring the Midwest and had hired Cessna aircraft to take you to places of work. Once, a storm was occurring around the small plane. Maynard stood up and shouted: "I'm going to sleep, but if you sights Glenn Miller, please wake me. Jungheim laughed and said, "Yes, Maynard was playful, gentle and quiet."
Source: JazzTimes / Lee Mergner