Biography

Art Farmer's singularly beautiful tone on flugelhorn and trumpet, combined with his highly lyrical approach to improvisation, led to a luminous jazz career from the 1950s until his death in 1999. Though the work of his formative years as a second generation be-bopper was somewhat overshadowed at the time, he consistently brought forth inspired and refined jazz with a succession of small ensembles over the decades, and is particularly well known for the music he recorded while touring in Europe in the late 1950s.

Top Tracks

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• Blood Count

• Blue Bossa

• Blue Concept

• Blue Minor

• By Myself

• Capri

• Cold Breeze

• Cool Struttin'

• Darn That Dream

• Donna Lee

• Downwind

• Far Away Lands

• Farmer's Market

• Five Spot After Dark

• Gone With The Wind

• Hi-fly

• I Remember Clifford

• I'll Take Romance

• Isfahan

• Johnny Come Lately

• Just In Time

• Killer Joe

• Moose The Mooche

• My Funny Valentine

• Nita

• Ruby, My Dear

• So Beats My Heart For You

• Social Call

• Speak Low

• Stablemates

• The Blue Room

• The Folks Who Live On The Hill

• The Shadow Of Your Smile

• Three Little Words

• Tonk

• Write Soon

Discography

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• Only The Best Of Art Farmer Quintet

  Collectables

  2009

• Art & Perception

  Gambit

  2006

• Silk Road

  Arabesque

  1997

• Live at Stanford Jazz Workshop

  Monarch Records / Sugo

  1997

• Meets Mulligan & Hall

  Moon

  1995

• The Meaning of Art

  Arabesque

  1995

• Company I Keep

  Arabesque

  1994

• Three Trumpets

  Original Jazz Classics

  1992

• Art Farmer in Concert

  Mesa/Bluemoon

  1984

• Yama

  CTI Records (Creed Taylor Inc.)

  1979

• Crawl Space

  CTI Records (Creed Taylor Inc.)

  1977

• A Sleeping Bee

  Sonet

  1976

• Talk to Me

  Pye

  1974

• Gentle Eyes

  Sony Music Distribution

  1972

• Gentle Rain

  Mainstream

  1972

• From Vienna with Art

  MPS Records

  1970

• Baroque Sketches

  Columbia

  1967

• The Time and the Place

  1967

• To Sweden with Love

  Koch Jazz / Koch Jazz

  1964

• The Many Faces of Art Farmer

  Sceptre

  1964

• Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra

  Verve / Mercury

  1963

• Interaction

  Atlantic

  1963

• Another Git Together

  Mercury

  1962

• The Jazztet Big City Sounds

  1961

• Blues on Down

  GRP / Chess

  1961

• Brass Shout

  1959

• Trumpets All Out

  Prestige Records

  1957