Maynard Ferguson :: Chala Nata

The winding path that took Maynard Ferguson from Canadian-musical-child prodigy to Hollywood hired-gun, Birdland mainstay to featured performer under Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic, to Timothy Leary and Ram Dass roommate on the psychedelic Hitchcock estate in Millbrook, NY, to the grounds of a school founded by the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti in Madras, India led to England. And back to the big band sound.

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