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This is a very tasty set of albums!!!!!

Screamplayer | Phoenix, AZ | 01/22/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The New Sounds Of The Maynard Ferguson Orchestra is a very tasty album. The CD release actually features two of Maynard's original LP's all on one CD. The first is called "Come Blow Your Horn." The Second is called "The New Sounds Of Maynard Ferguson." The best tracks that stick out are "Danny Boy", and "Bossa Nova De Funk." I also like Alex North's, "Theme from Antony and Cleopatra." I loved the original album cover, the one with Ferguson sitting under the tree playing his horn with the dog standing by him!! These are originally released on the old Cameo Parkway label, which is now defunct. A very worthy purchase!!!!!"

Get it while it's in print

Steve Frazier | Seattle | 12/10/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Maynard Ferguson had a long recording career for many different labels and availability of his various albums has been spotty at best -- they have gone in and out of print over the past few years, so it's worth getting them while they are available.



This CD is interesting as it contains two albums Maynard recorded for the Camden label in 1964. It fills an interesting gap in the Maynard works available as I write this -- you can buy the "Birdland Dream Band" album from 1956, but most of his work from 1957 through early 1964 was on the Roulette label and those albums aren't current available (there was a Mosaic box set issued several years ago; used copies sell for many hundreds of dollars today). Likewise, his other mid-60's albums -- which were recorded on Mainstream -- appear to be available only in digital version.



So -- if you want to hear Maynard in his mid-60's form -- this album (which appears to be imported from Spain) is worth getting while you can. it's good, "small" big band jazz, and similar to what you get on the other Maynard albums of the time. For the most part it's swinging, straight-ahead jazz, with a number of high-note trumpet features for Maynard and some tasty solos by some of his talented sidemen.



If you only know Maynard's later work (from the 70's, 80's or 90's), which had more jazz/rock and pop stuff mixed into it, you owe it to yourself to get this and/or "Birdland Dream Band" to sample his earlier work."