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Art Farmer: I Love You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 03, 09

Art Farmer was perhaps the tastiest player in modern jazz. His exquisite note choices were accentuated by his use of ...

Art Farmer: Jubilation (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

By 1958, Farmer and Golson had been musical soul mates for half a decade. Farmer and Evans, who met in George Russell...

Art Farmer: Soul Eyes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

In the early 1960s, trumpeter Art Farmer took up the flugelhorn, attracted by its richer, woodier sound. With the flu...

Art Farmer: Goodbye, Old Girl (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Before concluding his early-1960s transition from trumpet to flugelhorn, Art Farmer set a goal for his swan song as a...

Benny Golson & Art Farmer: Step Lightly (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

So, if Miles Davis proved the Harmon mute worked on ballads and Chet Baker showed it handled fast tunes, what about m...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Art Farmer & Benny Golson: Park Avenue Petite (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Their debut album was called Meet the Jazztet, and you'd best shake hands fast because all but two founding members s...

Bob Dorough: The End of a Love Affair (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

It should come as no surprise that when Art Farmer joined forces with Bob Dorough's trio for some 1987 gigs in Barcel...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOB DOROUGH

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Benny Golson: Killer Joe (1960) -- alternate review (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

“Killer Joe” closes “Meet the Jazztet,” an album co-led by trumpeter Art Farmer and saxophonist Benny Golson. A pop-s...

Gerry Mulligan: Festive Minor (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Received wisdom has long held that Gerry Mulligan's 1958-1959 quartet with Art Farmer was superior to his origin...

George Russell: Concerto for Billy the Kid (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Every important theorist needs a worthy practitioner. The collaboration between composer George Russell and pianist B...

Sonny Clark: Lover (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Soundman Rudy Van Gelder's reverb made hard-edged trumpeters such as Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd sound commodious, but...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Quincy Jones (featuring Lars Gullin): Sometimes I'm Happy (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

Jazz Abroad presents the first recording sessions led by, respectively, Roy Haynes and Quincy Jones. Don't be confuse...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Eddie Costa: Stretch in "F" (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

This enjoyable jam-session style tune comes from one of the few albums that pianist/vibraphonist Eddie Costa made bef...

Gerry Mulligan: Catch As Catch Can (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music April 09, 08

It takes cheek to show up in New England on the Fourth of July sporting a red blazer. Yet as shown by Jazz on a Summe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY

During the 1950s, the Newport Jazz Festival was an outdoor jamboree held in the exclusive environs of Rhod...

George Russell: All About Rosie (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 12, 08

George Russell's contribution to the 1957 Brandeis University Jazz Festival of the Arts is his masterpiece. Initially...

Sonny Clark: Cool Struttin' (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

For this laid-back blowing session, Sonny Clark fronts an all-star lineup of which he was the only non-star, although...

George Russell: Manhattan (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 30, 08

George Russell's album-length tribute to New York City remains a major work of the period and one of his most importa...

Oscar Pettiford: Nica's Tempo (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 26, 08

Though Oscar Pettiford is well remembered as one of the fathers of modern jazz bass playing, his unique, short-lived ...

Benny Golson: Killer Joe (1960) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

At the beginning of the 1960s, The Jazztet was one of the leading hard bop ensembles, due not only to its outstanding...

Gerry Mulligan: Theme from I Want to Live! (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

I Want to Live! (1958) is the true story of three lowlifes who, after murdering a disabled widow during a botched rob...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

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