{"id":3142,"date":"2011-12-02T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T20:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2011-12-02T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T20:15:29","slug":"muted-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/12\/muted-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Muted Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the years in which Art Farmer (1928-1999) played trumpet as his main horn, his muted work was a pleasure to hear. After he switched to flugelhorn in the early 1960s, his playing took on greater lyricism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Art-Farmer-Muted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Art-Farmer-Muted.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Art Farmer Muted\" width=\"160\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3143\" \/><\/a>depth, but because there were no flugelhorn mutes, a satisfying aspect of his sound went by the wayside. Then, in the late \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc70s he found a technician who was able to convert a trombone mute so that the flugel could accommodate it. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Farmer on muted flugelhorn in 1982 with a superb rhythm section: Fred Hersch, piano; Dennis Irwin, bass; Billy Hart, drums.<\/p>\n<p><p>I have posted this video before&#151;but not for a couple of years&#151;and no doubt will again. We play favorite records often. Why not favorite videos? Art\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ending cadenza alone would be worth the return visit.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WXHzJKALlm8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>For the previous \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u009d appearance, other Art Farmer videos and reflections on his importance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/10\/the_art_of_art_farmer.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the years in which Art Farmer (1928-1999) played trumpet as his main horn, his muted work was a pleasure to hear. After he switched to flugelhorn in the early 1960s, his playing took on greater lyricism and depth, but because there were no flugelhorn mutes, a satisfying aspect of his sound went by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}