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| 1. | Gonna Fly Now
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| 2. | Mister Mellow
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| 3. | Star Trek (Theme)
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| 4. | Conquistador
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| 5. | Soar Like an Eagle
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| 6. | The Fly
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Jazz
Bop
Hard Bop
Crossover Jazz
Recorded: Oct 1976-Mar 1977
Maynard Ferguson (trumpet, flugelhorn); Bob James (conductor, piano, keyboards); Jay Chattaway (conductor); Patti Austin, Lani Groves, Ellen Bernfeld, Richard Berg (vocals); Mike Migliore (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Mark Colby (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); George Young (alto saxophone); Joe Farrell (tenor saxophone); Bobby Militello (baritone saxophone, flute); Stan Mark, Dennis Noday, Ron Tooley, Jon Faddis, Marvin Stamm, Randy Brecker (trumpet); Randy Purcell, Julian Priester (trombone); Biff Hannon (keyboards); Jeff Layton, George Benson, Eric Gale (guitar); Gordon Johnson, Will Lee (bass); Peter Erskine, Harvey Mason (drums); Ralph MacDonald (percussion)
Maynard was shrewd, and Maynard was quick, and he managed to beat almost everyone to the punch -- sorry -- when he recorded the theme from Rocky and watched it rise to No. 28 on the pop charts. As blatant as Ferguson's rendition is, it was still the best rendition of the Bill Conti tune of the time (a lot better than the composer's own No. 1 version), and MF's heroic propensity for high notes and underdog status as a hitmaker does make it easy to link him with his celluloid counterpart. It is also the best track on an otherwise overloaded Jay Chattaway production where the combination of the chrome-plated Chattaway hand and list of noted supporting players (George Benson, Joe Farrell, Bob James, the young Jon Faddis, Julian Priester, Harvey Mason, etc.) nearly overwhelms the MF big band and even MF himself. The title track has a certain flamboyant grandeur emanating both from Ferguson and the electronic brigade that dominate the tune, yet Benson's fluid cameo and MF's obligatos are wasted by the irritating female voices on "Mister Mellow." This record gave MF the largest amount of exposure that he ever had; the Faustian tradeoff is that it often sounds gimmicky today.
---Richard S. Ginell, allmusic
Includes liner notes by Dean Pratt |
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