Art Farmer!

Generally, I'm against exclamation points. The one in the headline is a justified exception.

If you miss Art Farmer as much as I do, follow this link. The YouTube information line tells you that the rhythm section is Ray Brown, Jacky Terrason and Alvin Queen. It doesn't tell you that the tune is Charlie Parker's "Moose the Mooche," that Art, late in his life, was playing with enormous beauty and power, or that Ray Brown was the boss of the bass. If the shape-shifting video bothers you, close your eyes. This is a gem.

June 26, 2007 1:04 AM | | Comments (4)

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Any idea when/where the clip is from? The info given at You Tube is '89/'90, but that doesn't really make sense with Terrason? Boy, love to see/hear more from this.

(I have no further information. If anyone among the Rifftides readership has, please let us know. Terrason was twenty-five and an active professional in 1990.-- DR)

Thanks for turning us onto the Art Farmer clip. An absolutely hot swingin' performance! Art was beautiful, his tone intact, his ideas still flowing and logical. Seeing a young Jacky Terrasson on piano was interesting. (Fun to hear him quoting Monk in his solo, AND Bill Evans' complete bridge on his tune "Five").

YouTube is amazing. First, we get to watch an older Art Farmer, and that in turn leads to a young Art Farmer, playing "Just Friends" with Lee Konitz, Ake Persson(!), and the Oliver Nelson Band (the latter if the given information is to be believed, an admitted drawback). I can do this all night long... thanks for the solid initial link!

So THAT'S a flumpet!

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