Art Farmer - The Summer Knows (1977 Japanese East Wind Vinyl LP)

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Art Farmer - The Summer Knows | Vinyl LP - 1977 Japanese East Wind (EW-8047, Nippon Phonogram Co. Ltd.)

Art Farmer had been based in Vienna since 1968, playing flugelhorn almost exclusively and moving steadily toward a lyrical approach that had less and less in common with hard bop. The Summer Knows was recorded in New York in May 1976, when Farmer came back for sessions on his own terms — a quartet date at Vanguard Studios with Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins. Kiyoshi Itoh and Yasohachi Itoh produced for the Japanese East Wind label; David Baker and Yoshihiro Suzuki engineered.

Six tracks across two sides, five of them drawn from film, standards or the Great American Songbook. The title track is Michel Legrand and the Bergmans' theme from The Summer of '42 (1971) — a film melody that suits the flugelhorn's soft register and long sustain. "Manhã de Carnaval," Luiz Bonfá and Antônio Maria's song from Black Orpheus (1959), opens the bossa nova vocabulary that runs through the record. Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Alfie" and Victor Young and Edward Heyman's "When I Fall in Love" extend the ballad character of Side A into Side B. Sammy Cahn, Paul Weston and Axel Stordahl's "I Should Care" closes the record with the same deliberate warmth that opens it. "Ditty," the one non-standard, is a Cedar Walton original.