Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers

Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers is a live album by Art Farmer recorded in New York in 1976 and originally released on the Japanese East Wind label.[1] A second volume of recordings was released in 2003 on the Test of Time label.[2] This quintet also presages the later, great, 1980s quintet Art Farmer kept, in that it presents us the regal front line of Art Farmer together with Clifford Jordan, a pairing first recorded in the late fifties in Horace Silver's band, but then crystallized in several magnificent, and more feted, recordings in the 1980s – really a high-point in all of Farmer's remarkably consistent discography. But here we get to hear them together (Farmer and Jordan) in the 1970s, too – and it is most edifying (especially considering the superiority of the rhythm section here!!). They would go on to even more pristine heights together, refining their ensemble concept. Not that there's anything lacking in this lesser-known, but fabulous, document of one of jazz's truly great partnerships.

Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers
Live album by
Art Farmer
Released1976
RecordedMay 14 & 15, 1976
Boomers, NYC
GenreJazz
Length45:51/49:00
LabelEast Wind
EW-8042
ProducerKiyoshi Itoh & Yasohachi Itoh
Art Farmer chronology
The Summer Knows
(1976)		 Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers
(1976)		 On the Road
(1976)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "The group had not rehearsed beforehand but rehearsals were not really needed for these hard bop veterans ".[3]

Track listing

Volume One:

  1. "Barbados" (Charlie Parker) - 13:01
  2. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 10:55
  3. "'Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 13:20
  4. "Will You Still Be Mine" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) - 8:30

Volume Two:

  1. "Fantasy in "D"" (Cedar Walton) - 11:47
  2. "Manhã de Carnaval" (Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Maria) - 12:07
  3. "Blues for Amos" (Sam Jones) - 13:54
  4. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 11:12

Personnel
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References
  1. Ziegler, F., East Wind discography accessed August 5, 2014
  2. Dryden, K., Allmusic review accessed August 5, 2014
  3. Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed August 5, 2014
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 76. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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