At 1:41 AM +0100 7/04/02, John Bell wrote: >> > >Did the Maynard Ferguson version of "Old Man River" ever get >released? Has anyone heard it? Is it any good?
It WAS released, then recalled. I think it may have been Willie Maiden's arrangement, and one of my students claims his dad has it, and that it sounds like most of the other arrangements written for Maynard's Birdland orchestra, in a medium-up swing. I think the "light" treatment, along with Maynard's pyrotechnics, is what the Kern estate objected to. They probably wanted it to stay a stately, moving ballad. Purely conjecture on my part, based on other things I have read about the management of Kern's estate. Christopher _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
