Art Farmer - Crawl Space (1980 Japanese CTI Stereo LP)

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Art Farmer - Crawl Space | Vinyl LP - 1980 Japanese CTI Reissue (LAX-3263, King Record Co. Ltd.)

Creed Taylor had been building a sound at CTI through the early to mid-1970s: Van Gelder engineering, Bob James or Dave Grusin arranging, the New York session elite on the rhythm section. Crawl Space arrived toward the end of that run, recorded in January 1977, and it has the lean quality of a band with nothing to prove. Farmer plays flugelhorn and trumpet throughout, the warmer instrument dominant. Steve Gadd plays with the economy he brought to every CTI date. Eric Gale's guitar sits in the mid-range, unobtrusive and consistent. Jeremy Steig's flute is the element that gives the album its particular character, present in the ensemble but used sparingly as a featured voice.

Grusin wrote "Crawl Space" and "Chanson." The opening title track is the most rhythmically direct piece on the record, Gadd and Lee driving hard while Farmer and Steig trade above them. "Chanson" moves more slowly, the arrangement opening into a longer Farmer solo. "Siddhartha" is Steig's composition, the flautist given his fullest feature of the session. Fritz Pauer, the Austrian pianist and arranger who had contributed to several CTI sessions, wrote the arrangements for "Siddhartha" and "Petite Belle." The closing track is Farmer's own, a short, elegant piece with a Brazilian feel that Pauer's string arrangement lifts considerably.

This is the 1980 Japanese CTI reissue (LAX-3263), manufactured by King Record Co. Ltd. The 1977 original Japanese pressing (GP 3099) was a gatefold with a poster; this edition has neither.