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| 1. | Barbados
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| 2. | Passos
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| 3. | My Kinda Love
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| 4. | Mirage
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| 5. | Cherokee Sketches
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| 6. | Smiling Billy
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Jazz / Bop, Cool, Hard Bop
Art Farmer - Producer, Flugelhorn
Art Farmer Quintet
Akira Tana - Drums
Clifford Jordan Sax (Tenor)
Dave Baker Engineer
Fred Hersch Piano
Giancarlo Barigozzi Mixing
Giovanni Bonandrini Executive Producer
Ira Gitler Liner Notes
Luigi Zanon Photography
Rau Dri Bass
Ray Drummond Bass
Vito Lentini Artwork, Cover Design
Mirage marked a reunion for Art Farmer and Clifford Jordan, who had known each other for decades but only recorded together on occasion at the time of these 1982 sessions. Backed by a strong rhythm section consisting of pianist Fred Hersch, bassist Ray Drummond, and drummer Akira Tana, they blend well in Charlie Parker's Caribbean-flavored blues "Barbados." Farmer's regular pianist when he toured Europe, Fritz Pauer, contributed the easygoing samba "Passos" and "Cherokee Sketches," which alternates between a treacherously difficult, Thelonious Monk-like variation and a brisk reworking of the familiar standard. Hersch wrote the loping, exotic "Mirage," in which Farmer and Jordan excel in their respective solos. Jimmy Heath's "Smilin' Billy" (dedicated to drummer Billy Higgins) provides a satisfying conclusion to this Soul Note CD, a precursor to feature recorded collaborations between Farmer and Jordan that ended only with the latter's death in 1993. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Art Farmer
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Aug 21, 1928 in Council Bluffs, IA
Died: Oct 04, 1999 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Post-Bop
Largely overlooked during his formative years, Art Farmer's consistently inventive playing was more greatly appreciated as he continued to develop. Along with Clark Terry, Farmer helped to popularize the flugelhorn among brass players. His lyricism gave his bop-oriented style its own personality. Farmer studied piano, violin and tuba before settling on trumpet. He worked in Los Angeles from 1945 on, performing regularly on Central Avenue and spending time in the bands of Johnny Otis, Jay McShann, Roy Porter, Benny Carter and Gerald Wilson among others; some of the groups also included his twin brother bassist Addison Farmer (1928-63). After playing with Wardell Gray (1951-52) and touring Europe with Lionel Hampton's big 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, who made many recordings in the latter half of the 1950s (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 group 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 own units. Since the 1980s Farmer visited the U.S. more often 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.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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