Maynard Ferguson - With His Own Bands: Early Years 1954-57 / Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson was something of a prodigy as a youngster, playing solos with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra broadcasts when he was 13 years old, and was always destined for a career in music, training at the Conservatoire in Montreal until 1948. He moved to the USA and played with the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey and Charlie Barnet before joining Stan Kenton for an extended stint in the early '50s. The recordings featured here represent his first forays into recording leading his own bands. This 43-track 2-CD collection comprises all the titles (excluding one which could not be included for reasons of space) from his albums on the Emarcy label "The Maynard Ferguson Octet", "Dimensions", "Around the Horn with Maynard Ferguson" and "Boy with Lots of Brass", with line-ups ranging from an octet to a 13-piece big band. It features many original compositions, with a number by tenor saxophonist and arranger Bill Holman, along with arrangements of classic Songbook standards, with the musicians involved including Bud Shank, Shelly Manne, Milt Bernhart, Herb Geller, Georgie Auld, Red Callender, Nino Tempo, Ray Linn, Bill Holman, Ray Brown, Alvin Stoller, Bobby Timmons, Larry Bunker and many more. It's an intriguing and entertaining insight into his work as he leads his own bands on record for the first time

Tracklist:

Finger Snappin'
My New Flame
Autumn Leaves
Inter-Space
20 Rue de Madrid
What Was Her Name?
Yeah
Egad, Martha
Breakfast Dance
Maiden Voyage
Thou Swell
The Way You Look Tonight
All God's Children Got Rhythm
Slow Stroll
Wonder Why
Willie Nillie
Hymn to Her
Lonely Town
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Mrs. Pitlack Regrets
Never You Mind
Pork Pie
Dream Boat
Well, Hardly Ever
The Roamin' Showman
Dancing Nitely
Ain't Life Grand
Idyll
Open Sesame
C'est la Blues
Wildman
Give Me the Simple Life
My Funny Valentine
The Lamp Is Low
Imagination
The Song Is You
Jeepers Creepers
Love Me or Leave Me
A Foggy Day
Easy to Love
Moonlight in Vermont
I Hadn't Anyone Till You
I Never Knew

UPC: 824046352226
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 9.13.24
Format: CD

Maynard Ferguson - With His Own Bands: Early Years 1954-57 (CD)