You Make Me Smile (album)

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You Make Me Smile
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Studio album by
Art Farmer Quintet featuring Clifford Jordan
Released1986
RecordedDecember 13 & 15, 1984
Classic Sound Studio, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length36:34
Label Soul Note
SN 1076
Producer Giovanni Bonandrini
Art Farmer chronology
In Concert
(1984)
You Make Me Smile
(1986)
Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
(1987)
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You Make Me Smile is an album by American flugelhornist Art Farmer's Quintet featuring saxophonist Clifford Jordan featuring performances recorded in 1984 and released on the Soul Note label. [2]

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Reception

The Allmusic review called the album "Creative bop-based music with Farmer's usual subtlety clearly in evidence". [1]

Track listing

  1. "You Make Me Smile" (Rufus Reid) - 4:19
  2. "Prelude No. 1" (Alexander Scriabin) - 7:02
  3. "Nostalgia" (Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro) - 5:42
  4. "Flashback" (Art Farmer) - 7:51
  5. "Souvenir" (Benny Carter) - 6:52
  6. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:48

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed June 14, 2012
  2. Art Farmer discography accessed June 14, 2012