Art Farmer & Benny Golson - Meet the Jazztet

Styles: Trumpet And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1960
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:26
Size: 95,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:32)  1. Serenata
(4:29)  2. It Ain't Necessarily So
(3:32)  3. Avalon
(3:13)  4. I Remember Clifford
(5:18)  5. Blues March
(3:56)  6. It's All Right with Me
(3:44)  7. Park Avenue Petite
(4:04)  8. Mox Nix
(3:36)  9. Easy Living
(4:57) 10. Killer Joe

One of the top hard bop contingents of the '50s and '60s, the Art Farmer and Benny Golson co-led group known as the Jazztet featured some of the best original charts and soloing of the entire era. While the group was only in existence between 1959-1962, its excellent reputation could rest on this stunning disc alone. Cut in 1960, the ten-track date features four of Golson's classic originals ("I Remember Clifford," "Blues March," "Park Avenue Petite," and "Killer Joe") and one very fetching Farmer-penned cut ("Mox Nix"). The rest of the standards-heavy mix is given the golden touch by the sextet. And what a combo this is besides Farmer's svelte trumpet lines and Golson's frenetically vaporous tenor solos, one gets a chance to hear a young but already very accomplished McCoy Tyner, the tart and mercurial trombonist Curtis Fuller, and the streamlined rhythm tandem of Addison Farmer and Lex Humphries. An essential hard bop title. ~ Stephen Cook http://www.allmusic.com/album/meet-the-jazztet-mw0000689979

Personnel:  Art Farmer (trumpet); Benny Golson (tenor saxophone); Curtis Fuller (trombone); McCoy Tyner (piano); Addison Farmer (bass); Lex Humphries (drums).

Meet the Jazztet

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