Warm Valley

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Warm Valley
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Studio album by
Released1983
RecordedSeptember 1982
StudioSoundmixers, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length39:04
Label Concord
CJ 212
Producer Carl Jefferson
Art Farmer chronology
Mirage
(1982)
Warm Valley
(1983)
Moment to Moment
(1983)

Warm Valley is an album by American jazz trumpeter Art Farmer recorded in New York in 1982 and originally released on the Concord label. [1]

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Reception

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Scott Yanow of Allmusic said: "The second of flugelhornist Art Farmer's two Concord albums is the equal of his first... Art Farmer is heard in prime form, playing in his appealing lyrical bop style". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Moose the Mooche" (Charlie Parker) - 4:31
  2. "And Now There's You" (Fred Hersch) - 5:09
  3. "Three Little Words" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) - 4:49
  4. "Eclypso" (Tommy Flanagan) - 5:28
  5. "Sad to Say" (Benny Golson) - 5:34
  6. "Upper Manhattan Medical Group" (Billy Strayhorn) - 5:41
  7. "Warm Valley" (Duke Ellington) - 7:52

Personnel

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References

  1. Discogs album entry accessed July 30, 2014
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 30, 2014.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  76. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.