Artist: Art Farmer
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Farmer's Market
Year: 2007
Tracks: 6
Modern Art
Year: 1991
Tracks: 8
Meet the Jazztet
Year:
Tracks: 10
Largely unmarked during his formative long time, Art Farmer's systematically inventive playing was more greatly comprehended as he continued to make grow. Along with Clark Terry, Farmer helped to popularize the fluegelhorn among brass players. His lyricism gave his bop-oriented panache its own personality. Farmer studied piano, fiddle and bass horn earlier subsidence on trumpet. He worked in Los Angeles from 1945 on, acting on a regular basis on Central Avenue and outgo time in the bands of Johnny Otis, Jay McShann, Roy Porter, Benny Carter and Gerald Wilson among others; some of the groups likewise included his twin brother bassist Addison Farmer (1928-63). After playing with Wardell Gray (1951-52) and touring Europe with Lionel Hampton's self-aggrandizing band (1953) Farmer moved to New York and worked with Gigi Gryce (1954-56), Horace Silver's Quintet (1956-58) and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1958-9). Farmer, world Health Organization made many recordings in the latter half of the fifties (including with Quincy Jones and George Russell and on some jam session dates for Prestige) co-led the Jazztet with Benny Golson (1959-62) and then had a grouping with Jim Hall (1962-64). He moved to Vienna in 1968 where he joined the Austrian Radio Orchestra, worked with the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band and toured with his have units. Since the eighties Farmer visited the U.S. more oft and has remained greatly in demand up until his death on October 4, 1999. Farmer recorded many sessions as a leader through the years including for Prestige, Contemporary, United Artists, Argo, Mercury, Atlantic, Columbia, CTI, Soul Note, Optimism, Concord, Enja and Sweet Basil.
New Found Glory
