Art Farmer and Benny Golson - Meet the Jazztet (1984 Japanese Baybridge Stereo LP)

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Art Farmer and Benny Golson - Meet the Jazztet | Vinyl LP - 1984 Japanese Baybridge Stereo Reissue (ULS-6108-BC, Teichiku Records Co. Ltd.)

Art Farmer and Benny Golson formed the Jazztet in 1959. Farmer brought the front-line concept, having led smaller groups since the mid-1950s; Golson brought the compositions and most of the arrangements. They hired Curtis Fuller on trombone, giving the front line its three-voice character, and McCoy Tyner on piano. Addison Farmer, Art's twin brother, played bass. Lex Humphries played drums.

They recorded across three days in early February 1960 at Nola Penthouse Studios. Kay Norton produced; Tommy Nola engineered; Chuck Stewart photographed the cover. "I Remember Clifford" opens Side A's emotional centre. Golson had written it in memory of Clifford Brown after the trumpeter's death in 1956. Farmer's reading of the theme is restrained, the melody played without embellishment, closer to a memorial statement than a solo feature. "Blues March" follows it with more energy. "It Ain't Necessarily So" is the Gershwin piece from Porgy and Bess.

"Mox Nix" on Side B is Farmer's sole composition, an up-tempo blues named with GI slang he picked up (the German "macht nichts" meaning "doesn't matter"). The Down Beat review singled it out as the high point of the set. "Easy Living" is a ballad feature for Golson's tenor. "Killer Joe" closes the album. This is its debut recording. Golson narrates over the melody, Farmer's muted trumpet carrying the head while the horns play softly over a suspended bridge rhythm. It has since been recorded hundreds of times, most famously by Quincy Jones's big band in 1969. 

This is the 1984 Japanese Baybridge Records stereo reissue (ULS-6108-BC), manufactured by Teichiku Records Co. Ltd.