Bridgeport, CT, May 16, 2005/Barnum Festival/ The Barnum Festival today announced Big Band leader Maynard Ferguson will be the headline performer for this years Champions on Parade event. The concert ...

I remember the first time I saw Maynard Ferguson in concert. It was spring 1982, the Cross & Sword Amphitheater in St. Augustine, Fla. It was my first time seeing a live jazz act, and the program left ...

Once part of a brassy and sassy pack of players that included the likes of Red Garland, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker and Stan Getz, the soon-to-be 76-year-old Maynard Ferguson is the last ...

CANTON, Mo. -- Hillstock 2005, a daylong music festival highlighted with a performance by legendary jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson at 8 p.m., will take place on the campus of Culver-Stockton College ...

Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, known for his soaring high notes and his hit recording of Gonna Fly Now, which lent the musical muscle to the Rocky movies, has died. He was 78. Mr. Ferguson, who ...

It's a wearying life: a concert in South Carolina one night, followed by a late-night drive to Miami, a midday arrival at a hotel, then another concert that night before heading north. For much of the ...

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