Art Farmer with Joe Henderson - Yama (1979 Japanese CTI Vinyl LP)

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Art Farmer with Joe Henderson - Yama | Vinyl LP - 1979 Japanese CTI (K20P-6842, King Record Co. Ltd.)

• Art Farmer and Joe Henderson's only recorded collaboration, cut at the Power Station in New York in April 1979
  
• Released in Japan in 1979 and not issued in the United States until May 1982, when CTI finally recovered sufficient funding; Farmer's fifth and final CTI album and one of only a small number of studio recordings Henderson made for the label
• 1979 Japanese CTI pressing on King Record Co. Ltd. (K20P-6842); mastered by Rudy Van Gelder; non-gatefold sleeve with insert

Art Farmer had been living in Vienna since 1968, but all but one of his CTI albums were recorded in New York. Yama was the last of them, recorded at the Power Station in April 1979. It is also the only studio recording Farmer made with Joe Henderson. Creed Taylor produced; Mike Mainieri served as associate producer and wrote all the arrangements. The five tracks were drawn entirely from outside sources, which was standard CTI practice by the late 1970s and reflected Mainieri's particular sensibility in repertoire selection. Clare Fischer's "Dulzura" — which had debuted on Fischer's 1965 album Manteca! and received very little coverage before this — opens the record. The Bee Gees' "Stop (Think Again)" came from their 1979 post-Saturday Night Fever album Spirits Having Flown, an unusual choice that works in the hands of Mainieri's arrangements. Joe Zawinul's "Young and Fine" had appeared the previous year on Weather Report's Mr. Gone, with Steve Gadd also on drums for that session. Don Grolnick's "Lotus Blossom" and Mainieri's own "Blue Montreux" close the record.

The rhythm section — Gadd, Eddie Gomez on acoustic bass, Will Lee on electric bass, Sammy Figueroa on percussion, guitarists David Spinozza and John Tropea, and keyboard trio of Grolnick, Warren Bernhardt and Fred Hersch — was the core New York session ensemble of its moment. Synthesizer programming was handled by Suzanne Ciani, who contributed to all three of CTI's 1979 productions. Neil Dorfsman engineered; Rudy Van Gelder mastered. CTI ran out of funding before the album could be issued in the US, so this 1979 Japanese pressing on King Record Co. Ltd. was the album's only available form until May 1982.