Description: The official website for Art Farmer, the jazz musician: trumpeter, flugelhornist and flumpeter. Included here is Art Farmer's complete discography along with biographical information, memorabilia, and memories from other artists and fans.
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Certainly one of the most respected and original of modern jazz trumpeters, Art Farmer left a substantial legacy of recordings and appearances throughout a career that lasted over 50 years. His improvisational approach favored lyricism and elegant construction rather than technical display, yet never sacrificed emotional impact, and he was a master of ballad interpretation.
Emerging in the early 1950s, around the same time as Clifford Brown , Chet Baker and a resurgent Miles Davis , Farmer would go on to work in a variety of settings as both leader and sideman. Although starting out with less than optimal musical training, he developed proficiency and sight-reading skills that provided the versatility necessary for survival in a very competitive environment. Constantly searching for an “ideal sound,” he would switch from trumpet to flugelhorn in the 1960s and then to the flump