With great memories I can say I was able to play this song with Dennis DiBlasio when he came to Orchard Park High in 1988. We played this song for over 15 minutes and we had every instrument in the school take a solo. What great memories for me.
Hands down the greatest horn player I've seen in my lifetime. I was a jazz trumpet player and saw him in high school in 1979, in Garden Grove, Ca. Absolutely My greatest inspiration as a teenager playing in jazz band. MF horn 1 and 2 are some of my most beloved and treasured albums.. got to shake the hand of the man. Also saw him at Disneyland. Jazz orchestras are something else that is disappearing in front of our eyes. But I won't let it die. I still play Air trumpet, like I did in 1977,..probably the only kid on my block ever to do that. When I saw him at Garden Grove high he started to give the intro to a Sonny Rollins tune; and from the front row I screamed, " Airegin" He looks out at the audience and says, "Oh ! , we've got some be- boppers in the crowd tonight.," td
Leave it to Maynard Ferguson and the boys in the band to take that well-known children’s song and turn it into a masterpiece of jazz. The baritone saxophonist was on fire. So was Maynard. I got to see those guys live at Cuesta Community College in 1977 while I was a student there. Good times indeed.
I've loved Maynards albulms since I was in high school, but the part I love the best is that his first chair trumpet gets an octave higher sometimes, and he's IN TUNE! LOL
My school got Maynard and his crew at the time to come play a gig in our theater. Sold out show. He demanded a steak dinner and red wine. It was godlike.
Ok, I'm going to say it. Lot of different schools of thought but Stan Mark was the greatest lead trumpet Maynard ever had! He played when Maynard wasn't playing, filling in space, and made you think it was Maynard. For years,.... listening to recordings there were places I thought it was Maynard and it was Stan filling in. Copped his style perfectly - dare I say better at times.
as good as stan mark may have been, everyone has a dark side and he was a very evil backstabbing man. if anyone knows how he treated and talked to craig anderson, you know what i am talking about.
cadillacdude1975 Hmm. Don't know anything about personal history or behavior. Have learned after all the years to separate the person from the performance and legacy they left. I do believe in being a good person. Not saying that's not important. I think that really counts. But whenever I've heard things about heroes of mine - William Shatner, Arnold Swarzenegger, even Doc Sevrinsen and Maynard I try to filter that out of the other positive qualities they translated to me through their performance. Yeah, it's unfortunate when people forget how to be good to people. Seems that has a way of working it's self out through universal karma, or whatever you want to call it, eventually. Still loved Stan the player. Man! What a sound!
I wonder how many people get you screen name and profile pic, haha! (I do) Doc and Maynard are my trumpet heroes. Regretfully, I have never seen Doc in person and Maynard only twice: For his HOT album and during the High Voltage era.....both times were fantastic!
my brother left this cd at my house when I was a freshman in highschool... never left my cd player. I would be lying in bed at night trying to sleep listening to this track and snapping my fingers wishing it was me on stage.
Storm was one of the first albums I ever owned, and it’s still one of my favorites of any genre. The version of Sesame Street on there is killer. The sax solo is even better IMHO.
Maynard. Was freaking god... I Challenger anyone hit the notes that he hits at his precision....... Wynton Marsalis has no chance of getting within two octaves of what Maynard could do and do effortlessly He is the Buddy Rich of trumpets and we should be very thankful that we were able to see him perform live thank you RU-vid
Amen Marc. Maynard is 20 times the trumpet player and musician that his critics ever were. I know of no trumpet player who could play his book every night like he did. He was a freak of nature.
Same. And we’re performing it live in front of my entire city at a festival. I’ve only played trombone for a month so I’m praying to god I can pull something out of myself today.
I got to play with the man that composed this song (Dennis DiBlasio). Absolute genius. I'd have to say it was the privilege of a lifetime. Did you know Maynard had never even heard of Sesame Street before performing it the first time?
Maynards ability to play insane high regester is mind blowing.... Who else can shake a triple c.... Like no one ever.... Ridiculas talent...... Rip Maynard...... You have us the standard to all jazz trumpet players will follow ... But no o,e will ever be you.
I hate it when my fellow trumpets in my band go higher than the trumpet sounds nice, but this guy is accepteble, he sounds great and even better in the high notes
We used to do that when I was a student, if we needed to fluff out a gig or something. Play the head of any piece, then 12-bar all the solos. We also weren't that good back then. ;-)
Stan Mark was a great lead player but on the next album Maynard put out after Mark was fired Alan Wise hit it out of the park on the Live from San Francisco album and that was a very difficult book to play out of.
