Jimmy Ford Collection 1988

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Jimmy Ford Collection 1988

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00136/00136-P.html

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Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Libary

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Walter Maynard Ferguson was born on May 4, 1928 in Verdun, an arrondissement of Montreal, Canada. His mother was a violinist with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, and and he and his brother Percy showed early musical aptitude. Maynard was a featured trumpet soloist with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) orchestra before he entered high school, and studied trumpet with Bernard Baker at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Still in his teens, he took over as bandleader in his bro...

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