Maynard Ferguson
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
1984-10-14

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Audio quality: A-

Set 1
01 Blue Birdland
02 Expresso
03 Central Park
04 South 21st Shuffle
05 Bebop Buffet (tape flip)

Set 2
01 Santa Claus is Coming to Town
02 Mira, Mira
03 Hit Medley: MacArthur Park, Chameleon, Hey Jude, Rocky
04 Birdland

Total time: approx 1 hour, 40 minutes


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 the 3rd row. During the summer of 1984, MF eliminated a trumpet,
bone, and sax player in exchange for percussion and guitar. 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 what had been the vocal melody. 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 1st-gen versions of
this show floating around, as well as a previous torrent, but this is the first version from
the master cassette and the first to include the 'Birdland' encore. I have repaired, as best
I could by adding some very quick fade-outs to the 'thud' caused by the pause button, the many
instances where the taper turned off the recorder between tunes while MF was introducing
the bandmembers. He caught all the music (except for a tape flip during an a capella bone solo
in track 105) and the vast majority of the dialog. There were also a handful of instances in
which a nearby person shouted or clapped very near the taper, causing an audio spike. I used
a hard limiter to bring those down a couple of db, trying to be as minimally invasive as possible.

Also included are some articles and ads 7published around the time of the concert, as well as a couple
of articles from April of 1984 for which there is no recording, but which might be interesting.
Last, there is a scan of the taper's ticket and a scan of the MF booking office calendar page showing
this date, for which they were paid $4000.