Back to the City

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Back to the City
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Live album by
Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet featuring Curtis Fuller
Released1986
RecordedFebruary 21–22, 1986
Venue Sweet Basil Jazz Club, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length45:05
Label Contemporary
C 14020
Producer Helen Keane
The Jazztet chronology
Nostalgia
(1983)		Back to the City
(1986)		 Real Time
(1986)

Back to the City is a live album by the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet featuring Curtis Fuller recorded at the Sweet Basil Jazz Club in New York in 1986 and originally released on the Contemporary label. [1] The cover photograph was taken at Madison Square Park, Manhattan, New York City. [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls the album "Timeless hard bop music". [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3+1⁄2 stars, saying it "features some lesser known items from the band's book, including a rare outing for Farmer as a composer". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Benny Golson except as indicated

  1. "Back to the City" - 7:55
  2. "From Dream to Dream" - 6:49
  3. "Write Soon" (Art Farmer) - 9:44
  4. "Vas Simeon" - 7:31
  5. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 6:07
  6. "Without Delay/Time Speaks" - 6:59

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Art Farmer discography accessed July 31, 2014
  2. ↑ "Musical Maps".
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 31, 2014
  4. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Art Farmer" . The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp.  432. ISBN   978-0-141-02327-4.
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