Comments for Ferguson, Maynard, Compact Jazz

I'm not sure, but the hig price of this album might be due to the fact that it's a re-issue of a rare album from the early '50s. (I believe the original LP was called Dimensions (12"), though MF had a few albums under this title.

BTW-- How can we buy this Japanese release?

I'm not sure, but this looks almost exactly like "Dimensions '55" You can find all of these tunes (all the good ones, anyway like "All God's Chillun" Maynard plays a bebop riff that ends on G above double C!) on the douple LP "Stratospheric".

I have the Stratospheric album, and it is worth $50.00 on CD! Maynard's version of over the rainbow is one of the best things he has ever recorded since the Stan Kenton Presents album feature titled, "Maynard Ferguson"!

I have the Stratospheric album, and it is worth $50.00 on CD! Maynard's version of over the rainbow is one of the best things he has ever recorded since the Stan Kenton Presents album feature titled, "Maynard Ferguson"!

I have the Stratospheric album, and it is worth $50.00 on CD! Maynard's version of over the rainbow is one of the best things he has ever recorded since the Stan Kenton Presents album feature titled, "Maynard Ferguson"!

This CD contains 16 of the 20 tunes available on the double LP set "Stratospheric" (1976). "Stratospheric" was a partial rerelease of Maynard''s work on the Mercury label from 1954 to 1956 (Dimensions, Boy With Lots Of Brass, Around The Horn With MF", and "MF Octet". Chuck Naffier arranger@frii.com

This is a Japanese release and cost heaps ($50.00 US ouch)But its Maynard after all so how could I resist, and listening to it at the moment the quality is very good forrecordings between 1954-56.Sidemen include Bud Shank, Conte Candoli, Shelley Manne George Auld and Ray Brown.

i heard Over the rainbow on the album titled"boy with a lot of brass"also another ballad which i really dug was Funny Valentine.I believe these were back up arrangements for Irene Kral.thats where MF was at his best, ballads.the incrdible range that he had,has,was easy to showcase.