Maynard's audiences are a college of nostalgia and youth, old and new. They are passionate, and they are buying his records. Maynard Ferguson is into new dimension, new sounds. For Ferguson, India was Shangri La. There he steeped himself in a new kind of life, and the sound of the East has only just begun to emerge in his music.
Instrumentalists have many experiences.
It's hard for them not to have magic involved in a performance. The audience, riveted, watches him moving, feeling it through his horn, telling it all - his pathos, his ecstasy. An audience consumed, gone with him. Later, alone, he gathers his energies, free inside. After a while, he speaks, his voice strangely suffused.