BEAVER CREEK – Jazz musician and Grammy-nominated trumpet master Maynard Ferguson will host an after-school workshop and discussion for Eagle County band students and a public concert at the Vilar ...

What would the holidays be without brass. Here are a bunch of recently posted YouTube clips of Maynard Ferguson in action, including Christmas for Moderns, an Ed Sullivan Show performance in 1960 and ...

In honor of Thanksgiving, we produced a powerful hour of jazz affectionately called “Jazzgiving"--a carefully prepared hour of music with all the trimmings. We begin with Maynard Ferguson and move on ...

BEAVER CREEK – Maybe his chops aren’t quite there but Maynard Ferguson has a lot to give back. The 77-year-old trumpeter literally blew it at the Vilar Thursday evening to an intimate audience, ...

Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, known for his soaring high notes and for his recording of “Gonna Fly Now,” a hit version of the theme from the “Rocky” movies, has died. He was 78. Ferguson, who lived ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A salute to Maynard Ferguson, one of the jazz world's flashiest trumpeters, colors American Music Review's annual Stagedoor Spectacular at 8 p.m. Friday, March 4, in the Long ...

Already a band leader in his native land by his early teenage years, trumpeter Ferguson played in the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey and Charlie Barnet in the 40s. His breakthrough into public ...

Maynard Ferguson, the undisputed high-note king of the trumpet, who toured the world with his bands for 50 years and had a hit record with the theme from "Rocky," died Aug. 23 at Community Memorial ...

Legendary jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson will perform on Jan. 23 to raise money for the Nordhoff High School music department’s upcoming trip to Carnegie Hall in New York. Ferguson’s concert will ...

LOS ANGELES - Jazz trumpeter and big-band leader Walter "Maynard" Ferguson, famed for his screaming solos and ability to hit blisteringly high notes, has died at age 78, associates said today. The ...

Walter “Maynard” Ferguson, the jazz trumpeter known for holding extreme high notes and a hit recording of the theme to “Rocky,” died Wednesday in Ventura’s Community Memorial Hospital of kidney and ...