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  On 8/26/2024 at 1:36 PM, HutchFan said:

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Art Farmer - Farmer's Market (Prestige, 2-LPs)
Compilation of tracks recorded 1954-56

 

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Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

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  On 8/26/2024 at 1:57 PM, Gheorghe said:

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

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I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did. 

But I'm grateful for the records.  ;)

 

Posted
  On 8/26/2024 at 12:50 AM, JSngry said:

It does, and it's a really good record that way. That's the one with the Basie band, right?

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Interesting mix of tunes on that album.  I knew about half of them.  The song "Welcome to the Club" should have been better known.  Do you know other versions of it?  It would have been great for Dino.

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  On 8/26/2024 at 3:27 PM, HutchFan said:

Yep.  :) 

Harrow is terrific -- and terrifically under-recognized.

 

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Worse than under-recognised here, I've never heard her name let alone her music, sorry Nancy.

Tidal have some albums, not Hutchfan's though, so I shall sample

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  On 8/26/2024 at 3:02 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

Interesting mix of tunes on that album.  I knew about half of them.  The song "Welcome to the Club" should have been better known.  Do you know other versions of it?  It would have been great for Dino.

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Nope, don't know of any.

I got that album as a hand-me-down from my wife's aunt. A very "surprising" assortment of records that includes another Nat record called Tell Me About Yourself  that was another mostly standards album arranged by Dave Cavanaugh, and a very nice one.

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  On 8/26/2024 at 4:11 PM, JSngry said:

Nope, don't know of any.

I got that album as a hand-me-down from my wife's aunt. A very "surprising" assortment of records that includes another Nat record called Tell Me About Yourself  that was another mostly standards album arranged by Dave Cavanaugh, and a very nice one.

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The one with the golf clubs and the amazing cardigan?  I've got that one too.

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  On 8/26/2024 at 2:00 PM, HutchFan said:

I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did. 

But I'm grateful for the records.  ;)

 

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I never got to hear him either. I'm surprised to read Gheorghe's glowing reviews of his live performances as I was told by someone who saw him later in life and they said that every time they saw him, he seemed drunk and was not playing very well.

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Rather nice sound for 1940s transcriptions!

  On 8/26/2024 at 1:57 PM, Gheorghe said:

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

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I never got to hear him, but I have a lot of his discography in my collection and fond memories of the phone interview I did a few years prior to his death.

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  On 8/26/2024 at 1:57 PM, Gheorghe said:

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

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I got to hear him just once at Sweet Basil. I recall he had Jerome Richardson on tenor sax.

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  On 8/26/2024 at 2:00 PM, HutchFan said:

I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did. 

But I'm grateful for the records.  ;)

 

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Most records I have is those made by musicians I heard perform. I usually bought records the next day after I heard a famous musician..... that´s how I built up my little collection....

Nowadays it is also musicians I heard, mostly fellow musicians, I mean I have them their record, they have my newest album.....

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  On 8/26/2024 at 8:16 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I never got to hear him either. I'm surprised to read Gheorghe's glowing reviews of his live performances as I was told by someone who saw him later in life and they said that every time they saw him, he seemed drunk and was not playing very well.

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Can't rule out exceptions, but saw Art Farmer several times during his long stay @ Wien and can confirm Gheorghe's impressions ....

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Schlomovitz/Polin - Contemporary Music for Harp and Flute [Ars Nova, USA]

Initial listen to this new arrival.  With thanks to @Teasing the Koreanfor making me aware of it with a post a few weeks ago. And with thanks to @HutchFanfor his assistance in getting it to the UK. This is going to get a lot of plays.

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