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Art Farmer / Gigi Gryce Quintet

Title: Complete 1954-55 Prestige Recordings

Label: Fresh Sound

Cat No:FSRCD488
Format:CD

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o Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce headed one of the more individual, unpretentiously inventive mid Fifties modern small combos - and these sessions, recorded originally for the Prestige label, in Hackensack, New Jersey, 1954-1955, feature truly all-star line-ups : Horace Silver, Freddie Redd, Duke Jordan (p), Percy Heath, Addison Farmer (b), Kenny Clarke, Art Taylor, and Philly Joe Jones (d).

o The music and solos are in the hard bop tradition, but melded with this fire is a concern for new, challenging, often lyric thematic material and flexible structural devices. The impetus for this came largely from Gryce, a key compositional figure in the transitional stage of modern jazz.

o He solos intensely in a Bird-based vocabulary full of emotional impact. Farmer, a major talent and already a vital modern jazz trumpet, plays with authority, ease and lyrical, melodic invention.

Track Listing for Complete 1954-55 Prestige Recordings
1. A Night At Tony’s
2. Blue Concept
3. Stupendous-Lee
4. Deltitnu
5. Social Call
6. Capri
7. Blue Lights
8. The Infant’s Song
9. Forecast
10. Evening In Casablanca
11. Nica’s Tempo
12. Satellite
13. Sans Souci
14. Shabooz

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Art Farmer / Gigi Gryce Quintet

Complete 1954-55 Prestige Recordings