Big Bop Nouveau
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Big Bop Nouveau is a band formed in the late 1980s by jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. Originally consisted of four trumpets, two trombones and four saxophones plus a rhythm section (plus Maynard). Later reduced to what has become known as the "pocket big band" consisting of three trumpets, two saxophones, a trombone and rhythm section (plus Maynard). Big Bop Nouveau tours the world extensively, most recently in 2005 with a tour of eight months playing an average of two hundred shows a year. Many of today's best studio musicians are alumni of this band. The group is tour managed by Memphis legend, Ed Sargent, and mixed by audio mogul, Mike Freeland. Although the band is now crippled without their star, Maynard Ferguson who first started the band.
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