CM BUCKS COUNTY COURIER TIMES PENNSYLVANIA SUNDAY, JANUARY 9,197? Maynard Ferguson's music is uniquely his own jazz
NEW YpRK, N.Y. — "The jazzcd-up "Pagliaccl." It's all to keep score," he says. "I dis- sure I get from playing and per- remembers a remark once first thing is to keep loving mu- Maynard, and Maynard loves it like that competition In an art forming has been going steadily made to him by Charlie Parker sic! Then keep your head wide all. form. Especially when you're up. "If you can't say it In eight bars, open, and li.sU.-n to everything — Questions "pure'art trying to educate children. It's "But in the late '80s I got di- you can't say it at all." Com- and play everything—in a crea- Despite his current broad pop- destructive to tell one 13-year- senchanted with the cookie- ments Maynard, "I'm not sure I tive way . , . The two severest ularity, Ferguson is aware of old that he came in last while an- stamp Maynard Ferguson I was can say it In eight bars, but it's a critics I know are on the two critics who snipe at eclectic other is the best." playing. Audiences weren't so great quote." adventurous then — they just sides of my own head. But don't styles, calling them "impure" This implies no disrespect for So Ferguson continues to tour worry; they know how to ap- and commercially motivated. music educators in general, wanted to hear 'Maria' instead of what I wanted to play." So — from Europe to Japan — and plaud too!. . ." "Some people like purists," re- however, whom Ferguson calls to bear out the most important Maynard Ferguson started sponds the trumpeter, "but who "those great friends of ours, Maynard took off for India and England, after disbanding his factor of all. "The secret to my listening to those "critic.s," and is pure? Louis Armstrong start- along with the school systems whole thing Is that music Is a studying music, at four years of ed doing something different and the 20,000 stage bands that band. are In America today. The up- But he never forgot the thrill thing of joy. As soon as the joy age. At nine he was a conserva- when he left King Oliver's band, comes out of it, change your mu- tory student in his native Cana- so was he 'impure' forever after grading of music education io of leading that band and blowing sic!" da. At 15 he formed a big band that? The only real purist is the schools has been the great- his own horn — "I approach the Cl imCJUislluSclcice rikUsUif Swietj wilh sidemcn averaging twice some African drummer some- est improvement in the last 15 instrument very physically" — his age. At 20 he played the Unit- where. years." He grins as he thinks of before an American audience. ed States with Jimmy Dorsey, "These people want to see me "all those kids getting into a "Not many people still believe PREMIERE TWIN Charlie Barnet, and Stan Kenton walking around with a beat up wider form of music. . ." the old stuff about playing only NESHAMINYIMUttS-UOO — whose band made him a star. old cornet under my arm In a For Ferguson, some of those for yourself," he insists. So he Rf.lt PA. TURNPIKE Hitting the top is a good trick, paper bag," Ferguson smiles, emerging youngsters might be returned to the U.S. and found but staying there is a better one. "looking to borrow five bucks future sidemen. He admits to listeners "widening their inter- COOT. ROM 1:30 PM Ferguson's latest Columbia al- from someone like in all those gelling attached to members of ests." bum — "Primal Scream" — old movies. But most people are his band, and mourning when Deslgnslnsfnirneita MEMieUlAB sold more copies in five weeks away from that image of jazz they leave for other pursuits. "It He gave them the diversity ^^EJ than any of his previous hits sold musicians now. . ." reminds you of running a ball they wanted, and soon found in a year. Why does a huge A continuing challenge for club. You always think you'll himself back in the swing—and young audience dig Maynard so any big-band leader is finding never get another Mickey Man- with a growing reputation as a much? fresh talent for his ensemble. tle, but before that you thought designer of instruments, such as Mixture of rhythms Ferguson has his own method of you'd never get another DiMag- the M.F. Horn Trumpet, M. F. "We're into today's music a keeping his ears open for re- gio; and the truth is you don't Superbone, and M.F. Firebird lot," muses the musician. "Kids ports and recommendations, get another one, you get some- that he plays on "Primal identify with the rhythms we get and asking prospective musi- thing different that you hadn't Scream." into. Yet our approach is a mix- cians to send tapes of them- even thought of." Today Ferguson enjoys the ture. My daughter is my manag- selves playing "in a comforta- Doesn't need dummies challenge of longer cuts on al- er, and she once said, 'It isn't ble, relaxed atmosphere." The main problem, he says, is bums — "It's more artistic" — jazz, it isn't rock, it isn't pop — He has "never been a fan of not finding talent, but selecting while remembering to avoid the it's just Maynard Ferguson, the the audition, which often leads from the profusion of good play- pitfalls of llthe endless solo." He band, and what they're doing to- to a case of nerves. 1 could give ers who are available. He re- day.' you a very famous list called calls the "wild" Jazzman Char- "That sounds pompous, but Maynard's Mistakes of talents I lie Barnet saying he didn't care COLONIAL it's the seed of what we're all missed when I did audition. So about a man's fine nonmuslcal lUCXS COUNTY MALL 357-2000 about. Still, you could turn that the in-person audition has been lUSniTON PIKE I STRUT RD. qualities, preferring "a dummy FREE PARKING negative into a positive and say, depleted from my repertoire. who can play." Says Ferguson, 'It is jazz, it is rock, and it is I've struck out too many times MIU«IADCLIFFE STS-Tt.l t»3 EXCLUSIVE AREA SHOWING "I don't need dummies. There UT.-ULCIMT.nilllttrl what pop represents: Populari- with it." are so many wonderful people XXX RATED FILMS XXX ty!'" Dislikes competitloB coming along today. . ." EXCLUSIVE AREA PREMIERE Sherlock Holmes meets One key is listening for new A Mnsuous hard cor* adult Sigmund Freud ideas wherever you can find One reason for this approach Though Ferguson's career film, In color, depicting th« them. "If you hear something is Ferguson's dislike of unneces- has propsered, the road has not eexual exploit* of that ail- sary competitiveness. "Often a always been smooth. "When I American play girl. Art explicit THESEVEN- new that happens to be electron- porno presentation. ic, don't say, 'What do we need sensitive, creative musician en- was nine 1 just loved music," he PER-CENT that for?' Say instead, 'I wonder ters into music without wanting recalls. "And the rate of plea- DIXIE if there's a \vay we could use An XXX adult film that has SOLUTION T that so it would turn me on.' " •orrMthing for everybody. A 1:40^:45-3:45^:55-10 This attitude helps explain an SUN.CON.2:NM:30 •olid plfec* of Mxual enter- electric mix like "Primal 7:05-9:35 tainment In XXX color. JAZZ TRUMPETER MAYNARD FERGUSON ADVISES, 'KEEP LOVING MUSIC' Scream," which moves from BARG. MAT. WED. & FRI. 1 PM $1.25 disco to Latin, from Chick Co- FRENCH HEAT .. .he listens to himself, new sounds, ideas, musicians rea's "Cheshire Cat Walk" to a Ullfllltt MATURE IMUINL Evenings from 6 P.M. Sat A Sun. continuous from 1 P.M. 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