Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra

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Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra
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Studio album by Art Farmer
Released 1963
Recorded August 10 and September 5 & 20, 1962
Webster Hall, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length34:33
Label Mercury
MG 20766
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Down Beat
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Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Mercury label. [4]

Art Farmer American jazz trumpeter

Arthur Stewart Farmer was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, double bassist Addison Farmer, started playing professionally while in high school. Art gained greater attention after the release of a recording of his composition "Farmer's Market" in 1952. He subsequently moved from Los Angeles to New York, where he performed and recorded with musicians such as Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, and Gigi Gryce and became known principally as a bebop player.

Mercury Records record label

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the United States, it operates through Island Records; in the UK, it is distributed by Virgin EMI Records.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "Oliver Nelson's arrangements provide great backdrops for the leader, as do the mix of dependable studio musicians and outstanding jazzmen assembled for the three sessions". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Street of Dreams" (Sam M. Lewis, Victor Young) - 4:18
  2. "Rain Check" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:40
  3. "Rue Prevail" (Art Farmer) - 4:08
  4. "The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) - 4:38
  5. "My Romance" (Lorenz Hart, Rodgers) - 4:57
  6. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) - 2:53
  7. "Naima" (John Coltrane) - 5:21
  8. "Ruby" (Mitchell Parish, Heinz Roemheld) - 4:38

Personnel

Flugelhorn Brass musical instrument

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument that is usually pitched in B♭ but occasionally found in C. It resembles a trumpet, and the tube has the same length but a wider, conical bore. A type of valved bugle, the flugelhorn was developed in Germany from a traditional English valveless bugle, with the first version sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modeled.

Ray Copeland was an American jazz trumpet player and teacher.

Rolf Ericson was a Swedish jazz trumpeter. He also played the flugelhorn.

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References

  1. ↑ Down Beat: March 14, 1963 Vol. 30, No.7
  2. 1 2 Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed June 19, 2012
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 76. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. ↑ Art Farmer discography accessed June 19, 2012
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