The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits
1967 studio album by Art Farmer Quintet
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| Studio album by Art Farmer Quintet | ||||
| Released | 1967 | |||
| Recorded | May 16, 23, & 25 and June 7, 1967 New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Columbia CL 2746/CS 9546 | |||
| Producer | Teo Macero | |||
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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]
Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
| DownBeat | [4] |
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
- "Song for My Father" (Horace Silver) - 4:36
- "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 5:30
- "Sidewinder" (Lee Morgan) - 3:58
- "Moanin'" (Bobby Timmons) - 4:49
- "Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) - 3:55
- "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) - 3:13
- "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 5:41
- "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) - 3:37
- "Gemini" (Jimmy Heath) - 5:28
- "The 'In' Crowd" (Billy Page) - 4:11
- Recorded in New York City on May 16 (tracks 1-3 & 5), May 23 (tracks 4 & 6), May 25 (tracks 7 & 9) and June 7 (tracks 8 & 10), 1967
Personnel
- Art Farmer - flugelhorn, trumpet
- Jimmy Heath - tenor saxophone
- Cedar Walton - piano
- Walter Booker - bass
- Mickey Roker - drums
References
- ^ Art Farmer discography accessed July 29, 2014
- ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2014
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 76. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ a b Siders, Harvey (May 16, 1968). "Record Reviews". DownBeat. Vol. 35, no. 10. p. 26.
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- The Art Farmer Septet (1956)
- Farmer's Market (1956)
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- Three Trumpets (1957)
- Last Night When We Were Young (1958)
- Portrait of Art Farmer (1958)
- Modern Art (1958)
- Brass Shout (1959)
- The Aztec Suite (1959)
- Art (1961)
- Early Art (1962)
- Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (1963)
- Interaction (1963)
- Perception (1964)
- To Sweden with Love (1964)
- The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964)
- Sing Me Softly of the Blues (1965)
- New York Jazz Sextet: Group Therapy (1966)
- Baroque Sketches (1966)
- The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (1967)
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- Gentle Eyes (1972)
- Yesterday's Thoughts (1976)
- To Duke with Love (1976)
- On the Road (1976)
- The Summer Knows (1977)
- Crawl Space (1977)
- Something You Got (1977)
- Big Blues (1979)
- Yama (1979)
- Manhattan (1982)
- Mirage (1982)
- Warm Valley (1983)
- You Make Me Smile (1985)
- Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1987)
- Azure (1987)
- Blame It on My Youth (1988)
- Ph.D. (1989)
- The Time and the Place (2007)
- Live at the Half-Note (1964)
- The Time and the Place: The Lost Concert (1966)
- Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers (1976)
- Central Avenue Reunion (1989)
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