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Maynard Ferguson loves doing this kind of stuff for high schools and colleges. He is a huge advocate of music education.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these students to be able to perform at one of the great concert halls. The memories they are going to have will last a lifetime.

I want that same experience for my students, ... Bringing him here is a dream come true. Our students are very excited. I have been showing them video clips of Ferguson. They shake their head in awe.

That project is moving. We have no intention of stopping.

We've put in a new offense and we're not running it right yet. But we have some capable kids who shoot well. We just had to re-establish roles.

I really want to be able to show these kids what all the years of hard work and practice end up resulting in and what a professional jazz band is supposed to sound like. I would imagine the public would love to support music education because it is so vital to education in general.

We're down by four (players) now. I guess we try and rest, and try to get healthy. I don't really know. We're struggling.