Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers | ||||
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Released | 1976 | |||
Recorded | May 14 & 15, 1976 Boomers, NYC | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 45:51/49:00 | |||
Label | East Wind EW-8042 | |||
Producer | Kiyoshi Itoh & Yasohachi Itoh | |||
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Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers is a live album by Art Farmer recorded in New York in 1976 and originally released on the Japanese East Wind label. [1] A second volume of recordings was released in 2003 on the Test of Time label. [2] Clifford Jordan, who had played with Farmer in the Horace Silver quintet in the late 1950s and would appear on several of Farmer's albums in the 1980s, plays tenor saxophone.
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Scott Yanow of AllMusic states, "The group had not rehearsed beforehand but rehearsals were not really needed for these hard bop veterans". [3]
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