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Art is a subdued and laid back album featuring a quartet made up of a two members of Farmer’s famed Jazztet as well as the great Tommy Flanagan for this solo outing that rewards repeated listening and - like Farmer himself - certainly deseves more widespread recognition as one of the better hard bop albums of the early-1960s.
Read MoreConsidered to be one of Mulligan's best albums, What Is There To Say? is a fantastic piano-less quartet session that benefits greatly from the underrated talents of Art Farmer and Dave Bailey.
Read MoreArt Farmer's Something You Got is not a record that will make anyone's list of classic or must-have jazz LPs, but it is nonetheless an excellent example of a late 1970s jazz funk recording by a true jazz legend.
Read MoreAnother Git Together is a hard bop lover's dream, and while listening to it I couldn't help but wonder why this group isn't held in higher regard in the history of jazz's golden age. Golson has always been appreciated as an accomplished jazz composer, but Farmer often seems to get lost in the pantheon of great trumpet players who appeared in the late 1950's and 1960's. Yet, the more I hear his playing, the more it becomes obvious the dude didn't take a backseat to anyone.
Read MoreTeddy Charles had an important place in jazz in the 1950's before essentially disappearing from the music business altogether from the 1960's onward (before a brief comeback in 2012). His lasting reputation will always lie with The Teddy Charles Tentet, an influential album that took an adventurous take on jazz that was quite ahead of it's time.
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