Modern Art (Art Farmer album)

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Modern Art
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Studio album by
Released1958
RecordedSeptember 10–11 & 14, 1958
StudioNola's Penthouse, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length40:03
Label United Artists
UAL 4007
Producer Jack Lewis
Art Farmer chronology
Portrait of Art Farmer
(1958)
Modern Art
(1958)
Brass Shout
(1959)

Modern Art is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer featuring performances recorded in 1958 and originally released on the United Artists label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]

The 1958 DownBeat review gave the album a maximum five stars. [6] The AllMusic review stated: "Modern Art is the prelude recording for Art Farmer prior to his partnership in the Jazztet with Benny Golson, and also foreshadows the classy, tasteful inventiveness that group brought to the modern jazz world two years after this 1958 session... the Farmer-Golson combine proved to be a[n] important pairing beyond their initial partnership, with the seeds of that forest flower heard and enjoyed here". [2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as "one of Farmer's most successful records of the period", praising the contributions of pianist Bill Evans in particular. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Mox Nix" (Art Farmer) – 4:39
  2. "Fair Weather" (Benny Golson) – 5:42
  3. "Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:57
  4. "The Touch of Your Lips" (Ray Noble) – 4:52
  5. "Jubilation" (Junior Mance) – 4:15
  6. "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) – 5:55
  7. "I Love You" (Cole Porter) – 6:58
  8. "Cold Breeze" (Wade Legge) – 3:53

Personnel

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References

  1. Art Farmer discography. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Nastos, Michael G. "AllmMusic Review" . Retrieved June 14, 2012.
  3. Hobart, Mike (April 3, 2010) "Art Farmer: Modern Art", FT.com. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  4. 1 2 Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton (2008), The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th edn) Penguin, p. 470.
  5. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  6. Hobart, Mike (April 3, 2010) "Art Farmer: Modern Art" FT.com. Retrieved June 29, 2013.