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Survey Results Archive: Questions 31-44

For many months the Maynard Ferguson Tribute Page featured a weekly survey question.  Here are the results:

Question 44: What MF alum would you like to see return to the band?

• In First Place, with 30%:  Denis DiBlasio
• In 2nd Place, with 12%: Stan Mark
• In 3rd Place, with 9%: Scott Englebright
• In 4th Place, with 7%: Bill Chase
• In 5th Place, with 6%, a tie:  Bruce Johnstone and Slide Hampton.
• In 6th Place, with 4%: Steve Wiest
• In 7th Place, with 3%, a tie:  Lynn Nicholson, Lin Biviano, and Peter Erskine.

Mentioned Once:

• Walter White
• Roger Ingram
• Pete Jackson
• Nick Lane
• Tony Pia
• Andy McIntosh
• Glenn Kostur
• Chick Corea
• Christian Jacob
• Randy Purcell
• Pete Jackson

Question 43: What jazz standard would you like to see Maynard record (or rerecord)?

In First Place:  Malaguena (2)

• Misty
• Cotton Tail
• It Could Happen to You
• Chatanooga Choo Choo
• Things Ain't What They Used to Be
• Round Midnight
• All The Things You Are
• Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
• Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
• Giant Steps
• Take The A-Train
• Frame for the Blues
• In the Mood
• Donna Lee
• Sunny Side of the Street
• Stardust
• A Child is Born
• I Remember Clifford
• Teonova
• How High the Moon
• Channel One Suite
• What's New

Question 42: What one word best describes Maynard Ferguson?

Some of the responses I received (there were too many to list them all):

• Inspirational
• High
• Huge (for his sound)
• Godlike
• Stratospheric
• Unstoppable
• Fire!
• The BOSS
• Cool
• ENORMOUS
• Explosive
• Energy
• Dynamic
• Exuberant
• Compassionate
• Irreplacable
• WOW

Question 41: What's the farthest you've traveled for a Maynard show?

Here's the rundown:

• 0-100 miles: 10%
• 100-200 miles: 48%
• 200-500 miles: 23%
• over 500 miles: 10%
• another country (super fans!): 10%

Question 40: What do you think Maynard's next album should be called?

This brought (as I had hoped) some great responses! I decided to list them all.

• Higher, Faster, and Louder
• Still Screamin'
• Maynard Ferguson: Redoes The Hits
• Superbone Meets The Badman
• St. Thomas
• The Very Best Of Maynard
• Around the Horn
• MF Horn `97
• Maynard Ferguson-Closing in on the Century
• Heavy Brass
• High, Higher, Maynard
• 'Cajun Soliloquy
• Maynard's Altitude!
• I Flew Higher Than Them All!
• To the Stratosphere and Beyond
• The Man
• Cookin' with Maynard Ferguson and Big Bop Nouveau
• Swingin' In Cats' Alley
• Straight ahead and don't look back
• Live at * (I think he should do another live album)
• Millennium
• Living it up!
• High as a Kite
• Pure and Simple
• Straight Up
• MAYNARD-Live from around the world
• Growin' Old But Playin' Gold
• Still Crazy After All These Years

Question 39: What is your favorite of MF's nicknames?

Wow! A clear majority vote on this question...

In first place, with 48%: The Boss

In second place, with 19%: The Admiral

In third place, with 11%: Maynard The Fox

Mentioned once each:

• Sillyface
• Mayn
• Chops
• Mr. Mellow
• Mayn-Yard
• The Ferg

Question 38: If you could only play one piece to someone who had never heard Maynard before, what piece would it be?

In first place, with 20%: MacArthur Park

In second place, with 17%: Ole'

In third place, with 10%: Birdland

In fourth place, with 8%: Gonna Fly Now

In fifth place, with 4%: A Tie!

• Old Man River
• La Fiesta
• Fireshaker
• Coconut Champagne

Mentioned once each:

• Caravan
• Night In Tunisia
• Eli's Comin
• Gospel John
• Bebop Buffet
• Danny Boy
• Maria
• Conquistador
• Hey Jude
• Birdland ('96)
• The Hit Medley
• Dancing Nitely
• Blues From Around Here
• Bridge Over Troubled Water
• Maynard Ferguson
• A Trumpet

Question 37: What is your favorite Maynard trombone solo?

I think that this question was misunderstood quite often! I actually was asking for the favorite trombone solo that MF himself played, but many of my responses were for solos that MF's trombone players had played...but I decided to include all responses:

In first place, with 28%: Superbone Meets the Badman

In second place, with 8%: L-Dopa

In third place, a tie with 6% each:

• Eli's Comin
• Fireshaker
• The Way We Were
• Caravan

Mentioned once each:

• St. Thomas
• Every Day I Have The Blues
• Round Midnight
• South 21st Shuffle
• Manteca
• Stella By Starlight
• Jazz Berries

Question 36: Who do you think most closely emulates Maynard's style?

In first place, with 26%: None, nobody, etc..

In second place, with 14%: Scott Englebright

In third place, with 9%: Jon Faddis

In fourth place, a tie with 6% each:

• Arturo Sandoval
• Bill Chase
• Paul Cacia
• Alan Wise
• Stan Mark

Mentioned once each:

• Doc Severinsen
• Lenny Pickett
• Scott Wiley
• Lew Soloff
• Ryan Krewer
• Jim Maney
• Rich Szabo
• Dave Stahl

Question 35: Who do you think was/is Maynard's favorite soloist besides himself?

Wow! The people have spoken! The winner was very clear-cut this week!

In first place, with 34%: Denis DiBlasio

In second place, with 12%: Bruce Johnstone

In third place, with 10%: Carl Fischer

In fourth place, with 7%: Matt Wallace

In fifth place, with 5%: Scott Englebright

Mentioned once each:

• Scott Wiley
• Pete Jackson
• Slide Hampton
• Joe Farrell
• Chip McNeil
• Jimmy Ford
• Slide Hampton
• Mark Colby
• Tom Garling
• Herb Geller
• Stan Mark

Question 34: What do you think is/was Maynard's most technically challenging song?

In first place, with 25%: The Fox Hunt

In second place, a tie with 9% each:

• Airegin
• The Fugue

In fourth place, a tie with 6% each:

• Ole'
• La Fiesta

Mentioned once each

• Got The Spirit
• Ganesha
• Give it One
• The Fly
• Conquistador
• Carnival
• Hey Jude
• Stand Up and Preach
• Hot Canary
• Scherherazade
• Manteca
• Theme From Star Trek
• Bebop Buffet
• Frame for the Blues

Question 33: What do you think Maynard's favorite song to play is?

In first place, with 30%: Birdland

In second place, with 22%: Sweet Baba Suite

In third place, with 15%: Blue Birdland

Mentioned once each:

• Frame For the Blues
• Hey Jude
• Maria (the New Vintage arrangement)
• Maria (in general)
• Ganesha
• Stay Loose with Bruce, Glenn's Den (etc)
• La Fiesta
• I Can't Get Started
• Cajun Cookin

Question 32: What is the most unique Maynard related item you own?

This week's question brought some really interesting answers, and I will include each answer in its entirety.

• Jazz Styles of Maynard Ferguson book
• a 16' X 30" charcoal painting of Maynard
• Supposedly, the mouthpiece that MF recorded "MF Horn III" on. I was a teenager in the early 80's, and Alan Wise sold it to me for $30 at intermission during a concert. Don't know if it's authentic or not, but I like to think it is.
• Just his great albums!!
• His signature on my copy of Chameleon
• My neatest MF item is a puzzle I bought from the fan club about 18 years ago. It was an 8X10 glossy glued on to cardboard and then cut into puzzle pieces. I had it framed.
• A picture of Maynard in Canada while playing a local club. When I showed Maynard this black and white photo at a concert in 1994, he mentioned that he never wore a white jacket while performing at this particuliar club, but in the photo I had he was in fact wearing a white sportscoat. He asked for a copy of the photo to be sent to his home so I sent it off in the mail to him later that year.
• I've got "Screamin Blues" on record (actually my dad bought it when it came out, and it's in mint condition) and noone seemes to know it exists), also I have an 1987 issue of Windplayer with Maynard on the cover, also in mint cond.
• I have the first couple issues of the "MF Newsletter" which was sent out to fans in the late 70's or early 80's.
• One of MF's old mouthpieces that was given to me. Also, a concert poster from Club Bene in Sayreville, NJ from November, 1979. It measures 3'x6'
• when i started to listen to MF 4 years ago I wanted to be just like him so I found out the type of horn and mouthpiece he played on. I went out and bought me a mouthpiece just like MF.
• Ballad Style LP
• Absolutely nothing... I am a sax player.
• Nothing other than cd's and cassettes.
• Score for Jolly Rogers from Kenton Era
• My most unique Maynard item, is my autographed These Cats Can Swing album from Maynard's IRC chat session.
• My most unique item is a vinyl recording of "Live from San Fran" that my dad bought for me before he passed away. Not very unique, I realize, but special to me nonetheless.
• Autographed tour poster from Germany that Matt Keller is desparetely envious for. When he singed it all I could say to him was, "You are God!" over and over...Damn you, Pete! :)
• Autographed mosaic box set
• Ticket from 1994 gig in Brisbane, Australia
• A towel that Maynard used on stage during a concert
• My signed Kappa Kappa Psi pledgeboard
• Picture of his warmup room
• Not a unique item, but a prized one just the same, an autographed photo from about 7 years ago.
• Mouthpiece cover
• a live recording of the song "Maynard Ferguson" performed with the Stan Kenton Orchestra
• MF3 Jet Tone Mouthpiece (1978)
• I've got a few albums

Question 31: What is Maynard's most beautiful ballad?

In first place, with 14%: Maria

In second place, a tie with 9% each:

• But Beautiful
• People
• Round Midnight
• An Offering of Love - Part 1

In sixth place, a tie with 6% each:

• Naima
• Macarthur Park

Mentioned once each:

• My One and Only Love
• Lush Life
• You Can Have Me Anytime
• Moonlight in Vermont
• Over the Rainbow
• As Time Goes By
• If He Walked Into My Life
• I Can't Get Started
• Hey Jude
• If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind
• Pagliacci
• The Way We Were
• Danny Boy