Maynard Ferguson at Newport

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Bill

Here is a great old video that has survived of the Maynard Ferguson band at the Newport Jazz  Festival.

https://youtu.be/d1_L0nWWem0

 

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Al Hirt “Night & Day”

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Bill

Here’s another Al Hirt video.  This is his version I would listen to over and over when I was about 11 years old.  This is probably the best Al Hirt video I have seen.  If any of us tried ever tried to play this piece at this tempo, there would be a disaster somewhere.  He was amazing at not falling apart when playing these tunes at these tempos.

https://www.facebook.com/adf3comcast/videos/10155758455809900/

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The Fort Worth Symphony at the Main Street festival in Ft. Worth 2018

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Bill

This is the Ft. Worth Symphony performing at the Fort Worth Main Street Festival 4/20/2018.  Because you can’t record their performances indoors, outdoors is the only way to preserve what they sound like.  Our society is getting so used to hearing only amateur musicians, it’s nice when the public can hear real professional musicians.  It’s a different experience when the pros do it.

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Q&A Session with Doc and Alan at the Sherman Jazz Museum

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Bill

The afternoon of the concert on 4/14/2018 we asked Doc and Alan Baylock to come to the museum for an hour to meet the public in a short question and answer session.  This is a brief excerpt from that session.  I think Doc wants us to open up the ballroom for dances someday, and he said he would be the first to volunteer to play for the dance!  My dad actually held a few dances there when his antique museum opened around 1986.  However, I don’t plan to hold dances there at his point.

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More Doc Severinsen 4/14/2018 in Sherman

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Bill

At the concert in Sherman on 4/4/2018 with Doc Severinsen.  Doc is the best sounding 90 year old trumpet player I have ever heard.  He is amazing!  The camera men seen walking around filming on stage were filming a documentary on the life of Doc.

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The First Annual Sherman Jazz Classic

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Bill

For eight years I wanted to do a jazz concert to go along with our jazz museum in Sherman, and in 2018 we finally did the first one.  I wanted The North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band to play and to backup a great jazz artist.  I also wanted the director, Alan Baylock, and the band perform with someone they were excited to perform with, so I asked  Alan to help choose someone.  It was a long shot, but we decided to go with Doc Severinsen, who was 90 years old, but still sounded great.  Hopefully, Doc would agree and he did.  This was the closing tune of the concert. Doc and the band sounded great! The concert was on 4/14/2018 at Kidd-Key auditorium in Sherman, TX.

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Early Impressions

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Bill

When I was a kid in 1963 and had just started playing the trumpet, this was just out.  Al Hirt made it sound so fun and easy.  I fell in love with his sound.

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Concert on February 9, 2018 with the One O’Clock Lab Band and Marshall Gilkes

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Bill

Our museum is sponsoring this concert next month at Austin College.  It should be a great concert, and part of the Community Series 50th Anniversary year celebration. To buy tickets: http://communityseries.org/home

 

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Maynard Ferguson playing “Somewhere” in 1969.

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Bill

https://www.facebook.com/vegashornplayer/videos/1828599937172538/

 

Maynard would have been about 41 and living in Europe during this time.  The big bands were dying and he would reinvent himself and his music in another year when MF Horn 1 came out.

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My dad’s group–1988

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Bill

Here’s my dad’s group playing “Indiana” in September of 1988 in Ft. Worth.  Neil Slater-piano, Dr. Gene Hall-clarinet, Jack Rumbley-drums, Jack Petersen-guitar, Perry Sandifur-trombone, unknown bass player.

They were playing for a gathering of UNT people in Ft.Worth, and my dad asked me to video the band.  This was one tune they played that day.  They played two hour long sets without any music, and this group had never played together before this day. My dad and Gene Hall were 75 at this time.  Gene Hall died in 1993, and my dad died in 2008.  They were soul mates, having been best friends throughout their lives. My mom was always in the audience to hear him play.

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