Printed Program. This one-day festival featured the Ryan Kisor Quartet, Dick Oatts with the Bluffs Big Band, Ric Swanson and Urban Surrender and Susie Thornton Quintet. Pages include information about the performers and biography of Art and Addison Farmer.
This Memorial Festival was produced by Jazz Arts Midwest, Inc. Printed Program: August 16: live music, two panel discussions and a presentation of A Great Day in Harlem film in which Art was interviewed. August 17: live music including The Bluffs Big Band, the Bobby Watson Quartet with Guitarist Dave Stryker; Ashanti; and the grand… Read more…
Postcard – both sides advertising the Jazz Party (festival). Art Farmer Quintet performed: including Art Farmer, Don Braden, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Davis and Yoron Israel.
Pages from the Book by William E. Ramsey and Betty Dineen Shrier, Barnhart Press 2002 ISBN 0-9720608-0-4. Art and Addison Farmer were born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1928. Pages include information about Art and Addison and the first Art Farmer and Addison Farmer Memorial Jazz Festival held in 2002 in Council Bluffs.
Ad in Hot House Magazine advertising Art’s gig with his Quintet at Trumpet’s, a popular jazz club in New Jersey, on April 10 – 11, 1992. Club still exists as of December 2017.
Calendar Brochure including dates and musicians for Pizza Express at 10 Dean Street, Soho, London. Art Farmer performed at the PizzaExpress often and in smaller towns in the UK, usually with musicians from the UK. This brochure is for his September 1995 dates at PizzaExpress which still exists as of December 2017 and continues to… Read more…
Several items are shown: Art Farmer presented with the NEA Jazz Masters Award by Bill Ivey, NEA Chairman and Dr. Billy Taylor, Master of Ceremonies. Art Farmer and Dave Brubeck (both Jazz Masters) sitting on their designated seats. Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, The Gerald Wilson Orchestra performed, among others. Invitations sent to Art Farmer to… Read more…
Softcover book by Axel Melhardt, the owner of Jazzland, the oldest jazz club in Austria. Shown here are the cover of the book and the page about Art Farmer, who had a home in Vienna and who performed at Jazzland frequently – usually in August and December. Art was loved by the jazz fans in… Read more…
The Brass Conference was an annual event formed in 1973 by Dr. Charles Colin, trumpet educator and publisher (1913 – 1999). Brass groups performed every genre of brass music during the 3 days as the schedule shown indicates. Art Farmer was the honoree at this Conference. Front and back covers of the printed program are… Read more…