Ferguson's favorite toy
“One of my fondest memories was when I was about
14 years old,” recalls jazz legend and three-time Grammy nominee Maynard
Ferguson. “I was a trumpet soloist playing in a jazz band in Montreal.
And one night, we opened for Louis Armstrong.”
During the intermission, Armstrong asked to meet “the little black boy
who plays all them high notes.”
Moments later, a photographer snapped a picture of a young, star-struck
Ferguson sitting on Louis Armstrong’s lap.
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Kingston Trio still hanging in there
When George Grove was 9 years old and just
learning how to play the guitar and banjo, his older sister brought home
an album, “From The Hungry i,” by a folk group called The Kingston Trio.
“I grabbed the record out of her hands,” remembers Grove during a phone
interview from his home in Las Vegas. “I told her, ‘that’s my album, and
I’m going to be in their group.’”
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Covert operations
Rocker Ralph Covert freely admits to living a
double life. At night, he helms one of the Chicago area’s most popular
rock bands, the Bad Examples. But during the day, he cajoles “his
younger fans” into singing, dancing and wiggling to his tour de force
for kids, Ralph’s World. And they enthusiastically comply, to songs like
“Peggy's Pie Parlor Polka” or the ever-popular “Happy Lemons,”
co-written by his daughter Fiona, who was a worldly eight years old at
the time.
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