An 80th birthday tribute to jazz trumpeter/ flugelhornist Art Farmer
featuring tracks from Portrait of Art Farmer, Perception, When Farmer Met Gryce, Blame It on My Youth, Something to Live For, Art, Sing Me Softly of the Blues, Live at the Half Note, Art Farmer, Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce (aka Evening in Casablanca), To Sweden With Love, On the Road, Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra, Mirage, Further Explorations (with Horace Silver), What Is There to Say? (with Gerry Mulligan), Meet the Jazztet, Here and Now and Real Time (with the Jazztet)
with Benny Golson, Clifford Jordan, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Jim Hall, Tommy Flanagan, Hampton Hawes, Grachan Moncur III, Steve Kuhn, Mickey Tucker, Harold Mabern, Fred Hersch, Duke Jordan, James Williams, Steve Swallow, Rufus Reid, Percy Heath, Ray Drummond, Akira Tana, Victor Lewis, Pete LaRoca, Philly Joe Jones, Kenny Clarke, Marvin 'Smitty' Smith, Albert 'Tootie' Heath, Roy Haynes and Addison Farmer
All tracks feature Art Farmer, trumpet or (from the early 1960s on) flugelhorn, with-
[1'14] Tonk (Perception, Argo 1961) Harold Mabern- p; Tommy Williams- b; Roy McCurdy- d
[5'44] Mirage (Mirage, Soul Note 1982) Clifford Jordan- ts; Fred Hersch- p; Ray Drummond- b; Akira Tana- d
[13'54] Swing Spring (Live at the Half Note, Atlantic 1963) Jim Hall- g; Steve Swallow- b; Walter Perkins- b
[19'48] with the Jazztet: Rue Prevail (Here and Now, Mercury 1962) Benny Golson- ts; Grachan Moncur III- tb; Harold Mabern- p; Herbie Lewis- b; Roy McCurdy- d
[24'12] with Gigi Gryce: A Night at Tony's (When Farmer Met Gryce, Prestige 1954) Gryce- as; Horace Silver- p; Percy Heath- b; Kenny Clarke- d
[29'19] My Funny Valentine (On the Road, Contemporary 1976) Hampton Hawes- p
[36'10] with Gerry Mulligan: Just In Time (What Is There To Say?, Columbia 1958) Mulligan- bars; Bill Crow- b; Dave Bailey- d
[40'19] Fly Me to the Moon (Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra, Mercury 1962) exact personnel uncertain but drawn from: Ray Copeland, Rolf Ericson, Bernie Glow, Ernie Royal, Paul Serrano, Clark Terry, Snooky Young- tp; Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Tommy Mitchell- tb; Paul Faulise, Tony Studd- btb; Ray Alonge, Jimmy Buffington, Bob Northern- Frh; Danny Bank, Ray Beckenstein, Phil Bodner, Walt Levinsky, Romeo Penque, Stan Webb, Phil Woods- reeds; Tommy Flanagan- p; Barry Galbraith, Jim Hall- g; George Duvivier- b; Charli Persip- d; Ray Barretto, Willie Rodriguez- perc; Oliver Nelson- arr, cond
[43'10] Summer Serenade (Blame It on My Youth, Contemporary 1988) Clifford Jordan- ts; James Williams- p; Rufus Reid- b; Victor Lewis- d
[49'28] One for Majid (Sing Me Softly of the Blues, Atlantic 1965) Steve Kuhn- p; Steve Swallow- b; Pete LaRoca- d
[55'25] with Gigi Gryce: Evening in Casablanca (Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce aka Evening in Casablanca, Prestige 1955) Gryce- as; Duke Jordan- p; Addison Farmer- b; Philly Joe Jones- d
[60'45] with Horace Silver: Pyramid (Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet, Blue Note 1958) Clifford Jordan- ts; Silver- p; Teddy Kotick- b; Louis Hayes- d
[67'20] I'm a Fool to Want You (Art, Argo 1960) Tommy Flanagan- p; Tommy Williams- b; Albert 'Tootie' Heath- d
[72'49] Johnny Come Lately (Something to Live For, Contemporary 1987) Clifford Jordan- ts; James Williams- p; Rufus Reid- b; Marvin 'Smitty' Smith- d
[78'24] with the Jazztet: I Remember Clifford (Meet the Jazztet, Argo 1960) Benny Golson- ts; Curtis Fuller- tb; McCoy Tyner- p; Addison Farmer- b; Lex Humphries- d
[81'33] Confab in Tempo (Art Farmer, Prestige 1954) Sonny Rollins- ts; Horace Silver- p; Percy Heath- b; Kenny Clarke- d
[85'27] Den Mostravige Brudgummen (The Reluctant Groom) (To Sweden With Love, Atlantic 1964) Jim Hall- g; Steve Swallow- b; Pete LaRoca- b
[91'13] Nita (Portrait of Art Farmer, Contemporary 1958) Jones- p; Addison Farmer- b; Roy Haynes- d
[95'39] Sad to Say (Real Time, Contemporary 1986) Mickey Tucker- p
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