The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits

The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits
The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits
Studio album by Art Farmer Quintet
Released	1967
Recorded	May 16, 23, & 25 and June 7, 1967; New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Columbia; CL 2746/CS 9546
Producer	Teo Macero
Art Farmer chronology

The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits is an album by Art Farmer's Quintet recorded in 1967 and originally released on the Columbia label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
DownBeat	^[4]

Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "The quintet's concise interpretations (no performance is over six minutes) are melodic without being overly predictable. As usual Farmer's lyricism by itself is a good reason to search for this underrated album".^[2]

Writing in Down Beat, Harvey Siders states "most tracks are played with the same inspiration one might find on a visit to the dentist," adding "that Farmer and Heath could rise above such a dismal format is a tribute to their instinct for swinging."^[4]

Track listing

"Song for My Father" (Horace Silver) - 4:36
"'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 5:30
"Sidewinder" (Lee Morgan) - 3:58
"Moanin'" (Bobby Timmons) - 4:49
"Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) - 3:55
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (Joe Zawinul) - 3:13
"I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 5:41
"Take Five" (Paul Desmond) - 3:37
"Gemini" (Jimmy Heath) - 5:28
"The 'In' Crowd" (Billy Page) - 4:11

Recorded in New York City on May 16 (tracks 1-3 & 5), May 23 (tracks 4 & 6), May 25 (tracks 7 & 9) and June 7 (tracks 8 & 10), 1967

Personnel

References

^ Art Farmer discography accessed July 29, 2014
^ ^a ^b Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2014
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 76. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ ^a ^b Siders, Harvey (May 16, 1968). "Record Reviews". DownBeat. Vol. 35, no. 10. p. 26.