Maynard Ferguson Pagliacci -Sweden 1980

[guitarspectre]

03:40 loooooool

[06casas]

to be capable of such intense playing in the upper register would be a blessing from god!

[MFjazzfan]

hes also on soprano sax and baritone, but thats the only instruments i know as far as i am aware.

[Nero815]

The drummer in that band was Roberto Petaccia, italian drummer, my best friend !!

[Riddim4]

@Nero815 A very bad man.

[Riddim4]

Respond to this video... A very bad man. I saw them in STL , just after he left, and I was very disappointed.

[onlytrumpet]

Nope... It´s a normal sized flugel mouthpiece and a holton flugel

It is actually a very big bored one...

hey, it´s maynard ferguson ;)

[onlytrumpet]

Nope... It´s a normal sized flugel mouthpiece and a holton flugel

hey, it´s maynard ferguson ;)

[otmq]

how the hell does he play the flugel so high???he must have a very un-flugel like mouthpiece...

[DancingSpiderman]

Thats' one tight sphincter sound. His valve water prolly smells like El Burrito Jr.

[rangepkr128]

I thought he was guna fart dust wen I seen the cover, but wow he's really good.

[matalmike]

Pete was already on the kit with WR in 78.

[matalmike]

Was'nt Peter already playing with Jaco and Weather Report at this time? I saw Maynard first time in 78.

[Geepereet]

I can't imagine Maynard doesn't know the drummers name so Petaccia should be the name...

[Airboy1287]

The drummer here is the late Roberto Petaccia.

[enlitened1234]

3.45 even a god can bleed

[catfishsteve]

Well, as hard as it is for a trumpet player to admit he's probably wrong, after watching this all the way through, I don't think that's Peter Erskine after all.

[catfishsteve]

If I'm not mistaken, the drummer is Peter Erskine. I a couple times in that time frame and I think this is still Peter.

[d00jolta]

Is this at Gröna Lund?

[jazzjanne1]

@d00jolta Yes!

Janne from Sweden

[gnolt]

Our band director took us to see Maynard in 1976.He was an insperation to us and many other band students throught his career.

[liberiofrank]

Maynard was my first and perhaps still my greatest musical hero. What a great musician, what a great man. The drummer in this band was ahead of his time in his drumming and sound... anybody know who this is? I couldn't catch his name when MF announced him.

RIP MF!

[Tgoon1]

It almost sounds like he is saying "Roberto Pitashio"...does that sound like anyone's actual name?

[tptdr]

You are welcome, Bimmerfun!

It was a great time hearing Maynard do the impossible nightly and working as hard as we could to support him from the trumpet section!!!

Bob

[bimmerfun]

Thanks so much for posting this, Bob! The world hasn't been the same (or as good) since we lost MF. It still makes me sad to think of the loss.

[giambabest]

rip great trumpet player..

[kingcyberklutz]

Maynard on Fluglehorn? Fantastic! Maynard on Trumpet? FANTASTIC-ER!!!!!

[bingcrosby1903]

lol

[trptuur]

Roberto was the drummer in my Berklee College Band. He died not too long after this recording Dave Caswell Berklee 77-78

[iluvsystemofadown]

i actually absolutely am insane about his tone and that vibrato he always adds.. or if its done because he cant control it i love it.

[birksworks01]

Hey Mcbmusic, Yeah, it's just you. The vibarato was part of Maynard's wonderful sound. It's part of who he was, the great trumpet player of all time!

[Mcbmusic]

Now I don't want all you bit time Maynard fans biting my head off.. but though i love his playing, i'm not keen on the way he uses excessive 'vibrato' in some passages, is this just me? This performance shows little of it though and is just incredible!!.. Class A, one of a kind player! I'm just sad i wasn't old enough to ever see him in concert.. RIP

[tammerman175]

maynard played jazz, and all jazz musicians have found some type of playing that they love to do. Maynard's was vibratoes, like dizzy's was soft jazz and so on. They like the sound of it, that's why they keep playing it.

[tammerman175]

As a sidenote, I'm not trying to bite your head off, i'm just answering your question.

[fotobosse]

I agree with you. He was class A, fantastic trumpet-player, but here he was using far too much vibrato and high notes, the music came in second or maybe third in this recording from "Grona Lund" in Stockholm if I'm not misstaken. I do not see the point of squeeking high notes with a fluegelhorn either, because this instrument is meant for the lower registers to sound like it's meant to sound. He still was a fabulous trumpet-player who all of us trumpetplayers around the world are missing a lot.

[DrStrangefate]

Ever hear Pavarotti sing Vesti La Giubba (Pagliacci)?

Heavy heavy vibrato...I've heard Maynard play other tunes like this but in this case I think it was appropriate to capture the opera feel.

[zachsir]

pavaratti and maynard rip

both amazing

[iluvsystemofadown]

ooh man.. every time i hear this live performances i always start to cry cuz i remember maynard for what he was and everything... RIP MAYNARD!@

[iluvsystemofadown]

high 5 m8 lol

[giambabest]

me too...

[iluvsystemofadown]

at about 9:08 i poop my pants

[giambabest]

the best screaming trumpet ever. RIP great Maynard

[sweepee1013]

Gabriel has a little competition now. RIP Maynard.

[leatherlips]

I really enjoyed watching this performance! Thanks for posting it!