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Portrait of Art Farmer
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by Art Farmer
Sales Rank: 839942
Price:$25.98
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Album Details
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1. Back in the Cage
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2. Stablemates
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3. Very Thought of You
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4. And Now...
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5. Nita
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6. By Myself
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7. Too Late Now
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8. Earth
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9. Folks Who Live on the Hill
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Listener Reviews & Comments
This 1958 Contemporary album points out the minimalist side of Art Farmer's playing. He plays trumpet without any use of vibrato and his approach is similar to Miles Davis's modal playing of the time: bare- and sparse. Never actually a cold or intellectually forbidding player, he gives the impression of purposely distancing himself from his surroundings. Interestingly, he notes in the liners that he admired the tune BY MYSELF because of its lyric "I'll face the unknown and build a world of my own." That aloneness comes through clearly here. Pianist Hank Jones is the other front-line player on this quartet date, and his single-note playing, especially on THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU and NITA, seems expansive in contrast to Art's diminutiveness. Only once before (and only a few times later) did Farmer record without another horn player joining him, and I find the results better with that extra support. This is a good album, but others, (his next one, for example, MODERN ART) are more satisfying.
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Portrait of Art Farmer
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