Art Farmer - Art (1979 Japanese Chess Stereo LP)

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Art Farmer - Art | Vinyl LP - 1979 Japanese Chess Stereo Reissue (BT-5316, Nippon Phonogram Co. Ltd.)

Art Farmer and the Jazztet had been working for three days at the Nola Penthouse Studios in September 1960, recording Big City Sounds, when Farmer kept two of the rhythm section and booked three more days for himself. Tommy Flanagan replaced Cedar Walton at the piano, Tommy Williams and Albert Heath stayed on. The result was eight tracks, most of them ballads or near-ballads, played in the keys and at the tempos Farmer chose on the day.

The music asks nothing complicated of the listener. The trumpet sound is warm and direct throughout, Flanagan's accompaniment spare and well-placed, Williams's bass prominent in the mix. On "So Beats My Heart for You," Williams takes two solos — the only sustained bass feature on the record, both of them noted in press coverage of the original release. "Goodbye Old Girl" is the Richard Adler and Jerry Ross piece from the 1955 Broadway production of Damn Yankees, given a reading with more weight than its show tune origins would suggest. "Who Cares," the Gershwin and Gershwin piece from Of Thee I Sing (1931), moves cleanly. Side B opens with "Younger Than Springtime" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, and "The Best Thing for You Is Me" from Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam. "I'm a Fool to Want You" — written by Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf and Joel Herron in 1951 — closes out the record with the same mood that opens it.

This is the 1979 Japanese Chess stereo reissue (BT-5316), originally issued on Argo as LP-678 in 1961, manufactured by Nippon Phonogram Co. Ltd.