Maynard Ferguson
Indiana University
1984-10-14

Aud (Sony DC-6?) > master cassette > 1st gen cassette copy (TDK SA-90) >
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01 Blue Birdland
02 Expresso
03 Central Park
04 South 21st Shuffle
05 Bebop Buffet
06 Santa Claus is Coming to Town
07 Mira, Mira
Hit Medley
08 MacArthur Park
09 Chameleon
10 Hey Jude
11 Rocky
12 Latino Lovewalk (bonus track) Elkhart, IN 1982-02-27

Trumpets: Maynard Ferguson, Louis Fasman, Alan Wise
Bone: Steve Wiest
Saxes: John Schroeder, Denis Diblasio
Guitar: Michael Higgins
Bass: Bob Wackerman
Drums: Ray Brinker
Piano: Matt Harris
Perc: Brad Dutz

This was recorded from about the 4th row by the same taper who did the
Glendale, IN 2/25/84 show. Since that date, MF eliminated a trumpet, bone, and sax
player in exchange for percussion and guitar. Around 1999 I played a gig with lead
trumpeter Louis Fasman, who told me he’d stayed on the band for almost a year hoping
to get on a recording, but they’d waited so long to release the ‘Live From SF’ album
that he finally gave up and left the band. Only a month or so after Wayne Bergeron
replaced him, they recorded the ‘Body & Soul’ album. Expresso, Central Park, and
Mira Mira were performed for up to two years before they were finally recorded in
Early ’86. This show features early versions of those songs.

For example, Denis Diblasio scat sings the melody on Expresso, but he left the band
before it was recorded with a sax covering it. That tune also features more high-register
passages before MF opted to take them down an octave. Central Park has different
background figures than the recording, as well as a different horn section passage after
the solos. I believe Diblasio recorded his a cappella version of ‘Santa Claus is Coming
to Town’ on one of his solo albums. There are CD-R versions of this floating around,
but I have done a fresh transfer from my 1st gen copy, and have repaired, as best I could,
the many instances where the taper turned off the recorder between tunes. They also
performed Birdland as an encore, but I neglected to copy that tune for some reason. The bonus
track comes from the same taper, recorded in Elkhart, Indiana on 1982-02-27. That show
was a very poor performance by MF, who was struggling the entire night. I only
copied a couple of songs from the master cassette, this one being by far the best tune of
the show, which MF actually sounds very good. There are some left channel dropouts,
of which I repaired a few of them during the opening cadenza by copying over the
right channel.