Category: Memorabilia

Printed Program (primarily in Japanese) for the Concert in Japan. Art Farmer’s Quartet included Ted Rosenthal, piano; Terry Clarke, drums and Sean Smith, bass.  

Printed Program. Dmitri Matheny, trumpeter, presented this concert in memory of Art Farmer, his mentor and teacher. Dmitri Matheny Group included nine musicians. Program and musician profiles are provided in the first 4 pages shown which were the Program Insert. The Program Cover “Old First Concerts” is shown as the fifth page.  

Flyer for the Drew Jazz Festival. On October 4, “Jazz Legends Day” Art Farmer was among those honored and he performed in the Trumpet Masters segment of the event.

This obituary written by Eugene Holley gives a brief overview of Art’s life and calls Art “one of the greatest flugelhornists in jazz” and “one of the most swinging and sensitive improvisers….” And, it also includes quotes by Benny Golson. Photo by Ronald Heard includes Art Farmer performing on his first flumpet and Geoffrey Keezer,… Read more…

Flyer announcing the Bones & Blues Event. One of the stops on A Great Day in Harlem Tour. A Great Day in Harlem film which included Art Farmer was presented followed with a live performance of the Art Farmer Quintet.  

In this article, “Pianist Fritz Pauer (1943 – 2012) remembers flugehorn virtuoso Art Farmer, who inspired the jazz world from his adopted home Vienna for four decades. As a member of Farmer’s Quintet, Pauer commends his colleague especially for the freedom he left his musicians to develop musically.” Wolfgang Weitlaner – Austria Kultur