by Benny Golson and Art Farmer
Sales Rank: 944426 Price:$15.00
Album Details
1. Serenata
2. It Ain't Necessarily So
3. Avalon
4. I Remember Clifford
5. Blues March
6. It's All Right With Me
7. Park Avenue Petite
8. Mox Nix
9. Easy Living
10. Killer Joe
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.
--This text refers to the
Audio CD
edition.
Listener Reviews & Comments It's difficult to understand from this distance in time why this aggregation never really broke through to the kind of acclaim that they deserved. The playing on this collection is excellent, particularly on the self-penned material ( mostly from Golson - but "Mox Nix" from Farmer is stunning). The standouts are the version of "I remember Clifford", "Park Avenue Petite" and of course, the much lauded "Killer Joe".The ensemble playing is terrific and the rhythm section of Addison Farmer and Lex Humphries gave this version of the group real propulsion. So why not 5 stars ? Well, because the best it got for me, was the group that played on the now-out-of print Verve album "Here and Now" which has been available only from time to time (shame on you Verve Interactive) most recently in 1998.That's where the interplay between Golson and Farmer seemed at its best, and Farmer gets to play some great flugelhorn. However this is just fine!