Listen To Art Farmer And The Orchestra (Verve Vault)

Listen To Art Farmer And The Orchestra (Verve Vault)Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra, recorded in 1962 and released the following year on Mercury, stands as one of trumpeter flugelhornist Art Farmers most ambitious statements as a leader. The album places Farmer at the forefront of a large ensemble arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson, whose writing gives the project a striking blend of sophistication and swing. The personnel bridges New Yorks hard bop scene with leading studio and jazz

think early Guns n’ Roses meets Iggy at the bar from a band whose trajectory was cut short after the death of guitarist Lyon Wong in 1986

Marking fifty years since their 1975 debut album Azimuth

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As guitars and saxophones are pushed through pedals and percussion and voices are fed through filters

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With their breakthrough hit ‘Into The Valley’ in 1979

more electronic-therefore more in the style of the genre-defining 1979 release No

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