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Maynard Ferguson obituary.

Maynard Ferguson tribute page.

Another one of the greats. Some say the last, but I expect we can still lose more.
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galacticvoyeur.livejournal.com

thanks, Kip, I hadn't seen this yet

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mjlayman.livejournal.com

WashPost obit:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/24/AR2006082401836.html

From: (Anonymous)

Did you know I saw Maynard Ferguson in concert? It was on my birthday one year when I worked at the Pik. Carl and I and a bunch of people went to Sam's Old Time Ballroom (the bar downtown that is no longer there), and it was really good (for someone who doesn't particularly like jazz). I don't fully appreciate the scream trumpet--too shrill for my delicate hearing (er..yeh...). Do you have a beard now? Have you always and I am as usual just unaware?! You look a little like Uncle Don in that picture/avatar (whatever). I am going to Michigan in October to hang with Mom while Dad goes to Texas and fetches stuff and visits friends there. I think I'll be there for about three weeks, maybe longer (!). But it's right around Bonnie's birthday, so it'll be great to be there for that. She's even excited! --L, M

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kip-w.livejournal.com

Hey, sis. You know, I don't think I was ever inside Sam's O.T.B.R.

The picture is from February 2003, when I was in "Company," the Sondheim musical that marked the end, so far, of my stage career. Right after that, we went and got Sarah. I'd had some combo of beard and moustache, always with sideburns, from Colorado days onward, but after doing "Rumors" clean-shaven at PCT in, um, 2002, I decided that I looked marginally better clean-faced, so that became my new default.

After that, every show I did, I stopped shaving at the start of rehearsals so that the make-up people would have the maximum growth to start from. We did "Thoreau" with me as Sheriff Sam Staples, and it was the only time I played a character who was specified as the exact same age as me (in "Rumors," I played the only character who was definitely younger than me). They were darkening my beard, then putting in a white streak. After a night or two of that, I suggested just leaving my own white streak in place and darkening around it.

But anyway, for "Company," I let everything grow, and they just had me stay that way. I have a whole bunch of pictures from that show, because they were available online, so for once I am pretty well documented all the way through the story line.