The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits

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The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits
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Studio album by
Art Farmer Quintet
Released1967
RecordedMay 16, 23, & 25 and June 7, 1967
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Columbia
CL 2746/CS 9546
Producer Teo Macero
Art Farmer chronology
The Time and the Place
(1967)
The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits
(1967)
Art Worker
(1968)

The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits is an album by Art Farmer's Quintet recorded in 1967 and originally released on the Columbia label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "The quintet's concise interpretations (no performance is over six minutes) are melodic without being overly predictable. As usual Farmer's lyricism by itself is a good reason to search for this underrated album". [2]

Writing in Down Beat, Harvey Siders states "most tracks are played with the same inspiration one might find on a visit to the dentist," adding "that Farmer and Heath could rise above such a dismal format is a tribute to their instinct for swinging." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Song for My Father" (Horace Silver) - 4:36
  2. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 5:30
  3. "Sidewinder" (Lee Morgan) - 3:58
  4. "Moanin'" (Bobby Timmons) - 4:49
  5. "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) - 3:55
  6. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) - 3:13
  7. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 5:41
  8. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) - 3:37
  9. "Gemini" (Jimmy Heath) - 5:28
  10. "The 'In' Crowd" (Billy Page) - 4:11

Personnel

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References

  1. Art Farmer discography accessed July 29, 2014
  2. 1 2 Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2014
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 76. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. 1 2 Siders, Harvey (May 16, 1968). "Record Reviews". DownBeat. Vol. 35, no. 10. p. 26.