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Arthur Stewart (Art) Farmer (August 21, 1928 in Council Bluffs, Iowa – October 4, 1999), was an American jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 trumpeter and flugelhorn
Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical Bore . Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the keyed bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus predating Adolphe Sax's innovative work....
 player. He also played flumpet
Flumpet

The flumpet is a hybrid musical instrument blending qualities of the trumpet and flugelhorn.It was inspired by Art Farmer, a virtuoso jazz musician who traveled with both a trumpet and a flugelhorn in his baggage....
, a trumpet/flugelhorn combination designed for him by David Monette
David Monette

David G. Monette is an United States artisan who designs and builds custom-built brass instruments and Mouthpiece s for musicians.Monette's experience as a trumpeter and the influence of acoustician Arthur Benade led Monette to redesign the trumpet mouthpiece with the goal of improving playability and sound quality....
.

The son of a steelworker, Farmer began working as a musician from the mid-1940s onwards. Based in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, he played in the bands of Benny Carter
Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter was an United States jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King ....
 and Jay McShann
Jay McShann

Jay McShann was an United States blues and swing pianist, bandleader, and singer.Nicknamed "Hootie", McShann was born James Columbus McShann in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Oklahoma....
 among others.

He joined Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton , was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players....
's orchestra around 1953, fellow trumpeters Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated United States jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings....
 and Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
 were also with Hampton at the time), and having relocated to New York, later worked with Gigi Gryce
Gigi Gryce

Gigi Gryce was an American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, educator, and big band bandleader. His performing career was relatively short and, in comparison to other musicians of his generation, Gryce's work is little known; however, several of his compositions have been covered extensively and are frequently heard in...
, Horace Silver
Horace Silver

Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio, Cape Verde in Cape Verde....
 and Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
 among others.






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Arthur Stewart (Art) Farmer (August 21, 1928 in Council Bluffs, Iowa – October 4, 1999), was an American jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 trumpeter and flugelhorn
Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical Bore . Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the keyed bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus predating Adolphe Sax's innovative work....
 player. He also played flumpet
Flumpet

The flumpet is a hybrid musical instrument blending qualities of the trumpet and flugelhorn.It was inspired by Art Farmer, a virtuoso jazz musician who traveled with both a trumpet and a flugelhorn in his baggage....
, a trumpet/flugelhorn combination designed for him by David Monette
David Monette

David G. Monette is an United States artisan who designs and builds custom-built brass instruments and Mouthpiece s for musicians.Monette's experience as a trumpeter and the influence of acoustician Arthur Benade led Monette to redesign the trumpet mouthpiece with the goal of improving playability and sound quality....
.

The son of a steelworker, Farmer began working as a musician from the mid-1940s onwards. Based in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, he played in the bands of Benny Carter
Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter was an United States jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King ....
 and Jay McShann
Jay McShann

Jay McShann was an United States blues and swing pianist, bandleader, and singer.Nicknamed "Hootie", McShann was born James Columbus McShann in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Oklahoma....
 among others.

He joined Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton , was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players....
's orchestra around 1953, fellow trumpeters Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated United States jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings....
 and Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
 were also with Hampton at the time), and having relocated to New York, later worked with Gigi Gryce
Gigi Gryce

Gigi Gryce was an American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, educator, and big band bandleader. His performing career was relatively short and, in comparison to other musicians of his generation, Gryce's work is little known; however, several of his compositions have been covered extensively and are frequently heard in...
, Horace Silver
Horace Silver

Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio, Cape Verde in Cape Verde....
 and Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
 among others. From the middle of the decade he featured in recordings by leading arrangers of the day, including George Russell
George Russell

George Allen Russell is an United States jazz pianist, composer and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on Jazz rather than European music, in his 1953 book, The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization....
, Jones and Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson was an United States jazz Saxophone, clarinetist, arranger and composer....
. He also formed "The Jazztet" with the composer and tenor saxophonist Benny Golson
Benny Golson

Benny Golson is an United States bebop/hard bop jazz Tenor saxophone, composer, and arranger....
; both men had independently come to the decision that the other should be a member of their group. "The Jazztet" did not gain sufficient club engagements to last beyond 1962, but it did assist the careers of pianist McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner is a jazz piano from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career....
 and trombonist Grachan Moncur III
Grachan Moncur III

Grachan Moncur III is an United States jazz trombonist. He is one of the few real free jazz trombonists, as well as a prolific composer. He is the son of jazz bassist Grachan Moncur II and the nephew of jazz saxophonist Al Cooper....
, and the group recorded several albums for Argo
Argo Records

Argo Records was started in December of 1956 in music as primarily a jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Originally the label was called Marterry, but bandleader Ralph Marterie objected, and the imprint was quickly renamed Argo....
 and Mercury Records
Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group....
. Farmer and Golson revived "The Jazztet" in the 1980s for a number of engagements, with the original trombonist Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller is a United States of America hard bop trombone, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers....
 returning to the group.

In the early 1960s Farmer established a trio with guitarist Jim Hall
Jim Hall

Jim Hall is the name of:* Jim Hall , jazz guitarist and composer* Jim Hall , Australian boxer in the late 19th century* Jim Hall , race car driver and founder of Chaparral Cars...
 and bassist Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow

Steve Swallow is a jazz bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.As a child, Swallow studied piano and trumpet before turning to the double bass at age 14....
. He then moved to Europe, ultimately based in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, where he performed with The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band
The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band

The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band was one of the most noteworthy jazz big bands formed outside the United States.It was formed in 1961, when, with the help of producer Gigi Campi, the US drummer Kenny Clarke and Belgian pianist and composer Francy Boland and ex-Ellington bassist Jimmy Woode brought together several jazz musicians of n...
. Farmer also recorded extensively as a leader throughout his later career.

His identical twin brother, Addison Farmer
Addison Farmer

Addison Farmer was an American jazz bassist. He was the twin brother of Art Farmer.Addison took bass lessons from Fred Zimmermann, and studied at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music....
 was a bassist. British trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton
Humphrey Lyttelton

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton , also known as Humph, was an England jazz musician and Presenter, and chairman of the BBC radio programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue....
 tells the following story: once, when an interviewer asked the brothers how they told each other apart, Art laconically replied: In the morning, I pick up the bass and if I can't play it, I know I'm Art.

Discography

  • The Art Farmer Septet (Fantasy Records
    Fantasy Records

    Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. They had previously operated a record pressing plant called Circle Record Company before forming the Fantasy label....
    , 1954)
  • Early Art (Fantasy Records, 1954)
  • When Farmer Met Gryce (Fantasy Records, 1955)
  • Two Trumpets (Original Jazz Classics, 1956)
  • Farmers Market (Fantasy Records, 1956)
  • Modern Art (disambiguation)
    Modern art (disambiguation)

    Modern art is a period of art developed from the mid-19th century to the 20th century.Modern art may also refer to:*Modern Art , a card game by Reiner Knizia...
     (CM Blue Note
    Blue note

    In jazz and blues, a blue note is a note sung or played at a slightly lower Pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres....
    , 1958)
  • Portrait of Art Farmer (Fantasy Records, 1958)
  • Meet the Jazztet (Geffen
    Geffen Records

    Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group....
    , 1960)
  • Listen To Art Farmer & The Orchestra (Verve Records
    Verve Records

    Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
    , 1962)
  • A Sleeping Bee (EFG, 1974) (Swedish release with Janne Schaffer
    Janne Schaffer

    Jan Erik Tage Schaffer is a Swedish songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his work as a session guitarist for ABBA but he has also recorded with artists such as Bob Marley, Johnny Nash, Art Farmer and Tony Williams....
    , Sabu Martinez
    Sabu Martinez

    Louis "Sabu" Martinez was a conguero and percussionist who performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland, Art Blakey....
    , Red Mitchell
    Red Mitchell

    Keith Moore Mitchell , better known as Red Mitchell, was an United States jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. He was the brother of Whitey Mitchell....
     etc.)
  • Yesterday's Thoughts (Test of Time Records, 1976)
  • On the Road
    On the Road

    On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957 in literature. It is a largely Autobiography work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America....
     (Concord Records
    Concord Records

    Concord Records is a United States record label now based in Beverly Hills, California. Originally known as Concord Jazz, it was established in 1972 in music as an off-shoot of the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California by festival founder Carl Jefferson, a local automobile dealer and jazz fan who sold his Lincoln Mercury dealers...
    , 1976)
  • Real Time
    Real Time

    Real Time is a webcast based on the long-running United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who which was then subsequently released on CD....
     (Fantasy Records, 1986)
  • Back to the City (Fantasy Records, 1986)
  • Something to Live For: The Music of Billie Holiday (Fantasy Records, 1987)
  • Blame It On My Youth (Fantasy Records, 1988)
  • Foolish Memories (L&R Records)
  • Ph.D.
    Ph.D.

    Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
     (Fantasy Records, 1989)
  • The Company I Keep (Arabesque Records
    Arabesque Records

    Arabesque Records is an American jazz record label.Arabesque began as a classical music subsidiary of the Caedmon company. In 1988, Marvin Reiss and Ward Botsford bought the company, turning it into an independent record label, and continued releasing classical until 1992, when it switched focuses to jazz under Daniel Chriss's supervision....
    , 1994)
  • The Meaning of Art (Arabesque Records, 1995)
  • Out of the Past
    Out of the Past

    Out of the Past is a film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur. The movie was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring from his novel Build My Gallows High ....
     (GRP Records
    GRP Records

    GRP Records is an United States jazz record company that was founded in New York by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1982....
    , 1996)
  • Silk Road
    Silk Road

    The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe....
     (Arabesque Records, 1996)
  • The Quartets (Hindsight Records, 1997)
  • Live at The Stanford Jazz Workshop (Monarch Records, 1997)
  • Art Farmer and the Jazz Giants (Fantasy Records, 1998)
  • Artistry (Concord Records, 2001)
  • At Birdhouse (Verve, 2002)
  • What Happens? (Cam, 2005)
  • To Duke With Love (Test of Time Records)
  • The Summer Knows (Test of Time Records)
  • Farmers Market (Prestige)
  • At Boomers (Test of Time Records, 2008)
  • Brass Shout (Blue Note)


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