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In a fascinating and revealing podcast, radio producer and host Bob Hecht talks with flugelhorn player Dmitri Matheny about Art Farmer, who for many years was Matheny’s mentor and primary inspiration. Matheny discusses the insightful, unexpected and sometimes amusing exchanges the two engaged in throughout their decade-long relationship and Farmer’s view that jazz performance itself should… Read more…

Updates to the Art Farmer discography as of January 24, 2019: Art Farmer discography 1948-1957: Two new issues have been added.   Art Farmer discography 1958-1965: Two new issues have been added.   Art Farmer discography 1966-1980: Session of September 7, 1970 – The composer of “Con-Fab” is pianist Fritz Pauer, NOT Art Farmer/Jimmy Heath… Read more…

Here is a clip from an Art Farmer interview done August 13, 1993 as part of the New York Public Library Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project. The complete interview is stored at the Schomburg Center. In this brief video, Farmer discusses his approach to ballad playing.

In November 2018, a new book entitled “Art Kane: Harlem 1958” was published in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of Kane’s historic photo of 57 jazz musicians,”A Great Day in Harlem,” taken on August 12, 1958, at 17 East 126th Street in Harlem, New York City, and which appeared in the January 1959 issue of Esquire… Read more…

Updates to the Art Farmer discography as of November 24, 2018: Art Farmer discography 1958-1965: A new session dated April 30, 1964 has been added. This is a live recording of the Art Farmer Quartet with Jim Hall in Stockholm (Golden Circle). Art Farmer discography 1966-1980: One new issue has been added that includes a… Read more…

Here is an interesting discovery: Did you know that Art Farmer reviewed jazz LPs? He was a contributor to Jazz Review Magazine from 1958 to 1960. Several of the issues containing his reviews are now available at Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies. Here is a list of his reviews: Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1958,… Read more…

Updates to the Art Farmer discography as of November 2, 2018: 53 new issues have been added to the Art Farmer Discography 1948-1957 70 new issues have been added to the Art Farmer Discography 1958-1965. 20 new issues have been added to the Art Farmer Discography 1966-1980. 2 new sessions have been added to the… Read more…

Updates to the Art Farmer discography as of October 17, 2018: 2 new issues have been added to the Art Farmer Discography 1948-1957 14 new issues have been added to the Art Farmer Discography 1958-1965. 4 new issues have been added to the Art Farmer Discography 1966-1980. 4 new sessions have been added to the… Read more…

Event: Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 7-9 PM, Institute of Jazz Studies, Dana Library, Rutgers University in Newark, Newark, NJ Art Farmer was remembered as part of the Institute of Jazz Studies Research Roundtable series when Lynne Mueller and Noal Cohen presented a curated listening session. The duo discussed the life and music of Art Farmer including… Read more…

From now on, any additions or corrections to the Art Farmer Discography will be announced. This is the first such notification. Date: September 22, 2018 6 new issues have been added to The Art Farmer Discography 1948-1957. 14 new issues have been added to The Art Farmer Discography 1958-1965. 2 new issues have been added… Read more…