The Jazzaar Festival Big Band with Peter Erskine & Wayne Bergeron
Directed by Fritz K Renold

The album presents catchy jazz standards and original MF big band arrangements presented by the Jazzaar Festival Big Band directed by Fritz K Renold.
Special guests are Peter Erskine and Wayne Bergeron, together with four other alumni of the Maynard Ferguson Big Band and joined by two of the UK’s top lead trumpeters. This was the Jazzaar Festival‘s 1st virtual concert released in April 2021.

The performance was recorded and filmed during the lockdown phase in 2021. As such the recordings took place in multiple locations across the world as well as in Schönenwerd, Switzerland. The young musicians and their mentors met online to prepare for this experience.

The album which is released on August 23, 2023 presents the original arrangements of the Maynard Ferguson Big Bands courtesy of

Tribute to Maynard Ferguson
The Jazzaar Festival Big Band with Peter Erskine & Wayne Bergeron
Directed by Fritz K Renold (CH)

featuring: Peter Erskine – d (USA), Wayne Bergeron Ltp (USA), Ryan Quigley  Ltp (UK), Louis Dowdeswell Ltp (UK), Tim Ries – as (USA), Tom Garling – tb (USA), Christian Jacob – p (USA), Gildas Boclé – b (FR)

The Jazzaar Festival Big Band

Nicola Bernhard – tp, Samir Rachide – tp, Moritz Renner – tb, Sebastian Wey – tb, Mattia Facchini – as, Baptiste Pfaff – ts, Felix Piringer – ts, Moritz Becker – bs, Merlin Breij – g, Sebastian Wells – d

Produced by Helen Savari-Renold & Fritz K Renold

The physical CD is available for purchase here.

The video of the virtual show that includes candid interviews with the mentors reminiscing their time playing with Maynard is available on Vimeo-On-Demand here