Posted
3:43 PM
by Gene
Maynard Ferguson, who over a long career struggled to get the ugliest notes out of a trumpet he could, and played junk music in keeping with an era of disco hits, and (along with his former boss, that master of pretension Stan Kenton) helped launch a whole generation of high-school and college "jazz" bands playing Chuck Mangione, and who must be counted a reason the music became a corpse a long time ago, has died. RIP.