Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers

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Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers
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Live album by
Released1976
RecordedMay 14 & 15, 1976
Boomers, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length45:51/49:00
Label East Wind
EW-8042
Producer Kiyoshi Itoh & Yasohachi Itoh
Art Farmer chronology
The Summer Knows
(1976)
Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers
(1976)
On the Road
(1976)

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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Reception

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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]

Track listing

Volume One:

  1. "Barbados" (Charlie Parker) 13:01
  2. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) 10:55
  3. "'Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) 13:20
  4. "Will You Still Be Mine" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) 8:30

Volume Two:

  1. "Fantasy in "D"" (Cedar Walton) 11:47
  2. "Manhã de Carnaval" (Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria) 12:07
  3. "Blues for Amos" (Sam Jones) 13:54
  4. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) 11:12

Personnel

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References

  1. Ziegler, F., East Wind discography accessed August 5, 2014
  2. Dryden, K., AllMusic – At Boomer's, Vol. 2 review accessed August 5, 2014
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S., AllMusic – At Boomer's, Vol. 1 review accessed August 5, 2014
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 76. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.