Editing Maynard Ferguson (section)

==Awards and honors==
Ferguson was appointed a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |title=Order of Canada: Maynard Ferguson |website=The [[Governor General of Canada]] |url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=7269&t=12 |access-date=19 March 2017}}</ref>

In 1950, 1951, and 1952, Ferguson won the ''[[DownBeat]]'' Readers' Poll for best trumpeter.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=756|title = 1950 DownBeat Readers Poll|access-date = February 20, 2008|date = December 31, 1950|work = Articles|publisher = [[DownBeat]] magazine|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120306001643/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=756|archive-date = March 6, 2012|df = mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=757|title = 1951 DownBeat Readers Poll|access-date = February 20, 2008|date = December 31, 1951|work = Articles|publisher = [[DownBeat]] magazine|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120306001658/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=757|archive-date = March 6, 2012|df = mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=758|title = 1952 DownBeat Readers Poll|access-date = February 20, 2008|date = December 31, 1952|work = Articles|publisher = [[DownBeat]] magazine|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120306001708/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=758|archive-date = March 6, 2012|df = mdy-all}}</ref> In 1992, he was inducted into the ''[[DownBeat]]'' Jazz Hall of Fame.

Maynard Ferguson plays a special solo trumpet piece as part of the closing ceremonies for the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, the XXI Olympiad, 1976.

In 2000, Ferguson was initiated as a brother of [[Kappa Kappa Psi]] at the Gamma Xi Chapter (University of Maryland at College Park). In 2006, he was presented with [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]] music fraternity's [[Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award]] at its national convention in Cleveland, Ohio. He had been initiated as an honorary member of the Fraternity's Xi Chi Chapter at [[Tennessee Tech University]] in 1976.

The "Maynard Ferguson Institute of Jazz Studies" at [[Rowan University]] was created in 2000, the same year Rowan bestowed Ferguson with his only Honorary Doctorate degree. The institute, under direction of Ferguson's friend Denis Diblasio, supports the Rowan Jazz Program in training young jazz musicians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rowan.edu/colleges/fpa/ferguson/index.htm |title=The Maynard Ferguson Institute of Jazz Studies |website=Rowan.edu |access-date=2014-01-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628010545/http://www.rowan.edu/colleges/fpa/ferguson/index.htm |archive-date=June 28, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

In 2000, he was given an Honorary Doctorate Degree by Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, and created the Maynard Ferguson Institute of Jazz Studies under the direction of Denis DiBlasio in their College of Performing Arts. The Sherman Jazz Museum in Sherman, Texas opened in 2010 and houses the extensive memorabilia of Ferguson's estate.

Maynard Ferguson band alumni regrouped for a memorial concert soon after his death, led by trumpeters [[Wayne Bergeron]], Patrick Hession, and Eric Miyashiro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCA-edcGsO4  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/KCA-edcGsO4| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=gonna fly now |publisher=[[YouTube]] |date=2007-08-05 |access-date=2014-01-28}}{{cbignore}}</ref>