Description
Release Date: 2025
Label: Enlightenment
Track List
Disc 1:
- So Beats My Heart For You
- Goodbye, Old Girl
- Who Cares?
- Out Of The Past
- Younger Than Springtime
- The Best Thing For You (Would Be Me)
- I’m A Fool To Want You
- That Ole Devil Called Love
- Punsu
- The Day After
- Lullaby Of The Leaves
- Kayin’
- Tonk
- The Blue Room
- Change Partners
- Nobody’s Heart
Disc 2:
- Street Of Dreams
- Rain Check
- Rue Prevail
- The Sweetest Sounds
- My Romance
- Fly Me To The Moon
- Naima
- Ruby
- Days Of Wine And Roses
- By Myself
- My Little Suede Shoes
- Embraceable You
- My Kinda Love
- Loads Of Love
- Sometime Ago
Disc 3:
- Stompin’ At The Savoy
- Swing Spring
- What’s New?
- I Want To Be Happy
- I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You
- Va Da Du
- De Sålde Sina Hemman
- Den Motsträvige Brudgummen
- Och Hör Du Unga Dora
- Kristallen Den Fina
- Visa Vid Midsommartid
Disc 4:
- Happy Feet
- Hyacinth
- Ally
- Minuet In G
- All About Art
- People
- Saucer Eyes
- Sing Me Softly Of The Blues
- Ad Infinitum
- Petite Belle
- Tears
- I Waited For You
- One For Majid
Notes
Born on August 21, 1928, Arthur Stewart was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet-flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, double bassist Addison Farmer, started playing professionally while at high school in Los Angeles. Art gained greater attention after the release of a recording of his composition ‘Farmer’s Market’ in 1952. He subsequently moved from Los Angeles to New York, where he performed and recorded with musicians such as Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, and Gigi Gryce, and became known principally as a bebop player.
Art Farmer performed as leader on eight studio and live albums between 1960 and 1965; largely released on Argo and Atlantic, which began with Art in 1960 – a date which Farmer later declared to be his own favourite in his vast catalogue. All Art’s early 1960s albums were well received critically and commercially.
This 4CD compilation features full, expertly remastered versions of the eight albums Farmer originally released as leader between 1960 and 1965, a selection that brings together some of the finest music this giant of jazz ever released, among a catalogue of almost 50 such works during his long life and esteemed career.
