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Maynard Ferguson

Before beginning his professional career in the United States with saxophonist and conductor Boyd Raeburn, Maynard Ferguson trained in Montreal, where he had already led several small ensembles. He then joined the orchestras of Jimmy Dorsey and Charlie Barnet, before coming to prominence during a solo concert in New York, not least because he plays a wide range of instruments, from clarinets to trumpets and saxophones. But it was mainly in the early '50s that he established his reputation, in Stan Kenton's band, where he developed his musical personality and his high-pitched flig...