terraverdemusic.org » jazz musician http://www.terraverdemusic.org A Jazz and Ragtime Blog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:56:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Art Farmer http://www.terraverdemusic.org/art-farmer/ http://www.terraverdemusic.org/art-farmer/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:57:45 +0000 http://www.terraverdemusic.org/?p=53 Art Farmer was born on Council Bluffs, IA on August 21, 1928. Art Farmer’s music was consistently inventive that has been more greatly appreciated as he continues to develop. His lyricism gives his bop-oriented style its own personality. His formative years was largely overlooked. Farmer studied piano, violin and tuba before settling on trumpet. He helped popularized the Flugelhorn among brass players. He worked in Los Angeles from 1945, performing regularly at Central Avenue and spending time in the bands of Johnny Otis, Jay Mcshann, Roy Porter, Benny Carter and Gerald Wilson among others. Some of the groups also included his twin brother bassist Addison Farmer (1928-63). After playing with Wardell Gray (1951-52) and touring Europe with Lionel Hampton’s Big Band (1953). Art Farmer move to New York and worked with Gigi Gryce, Horace Silver’s Quintet (1956-58) and Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1958-59).

Art Farmer, who made many recordings in the latter half of the 1950’s, including with Quincy Jones and George Russell for Prestige, he co-led the Jazztet with Benny Golson (1959-62) and then had a group wil Jim Hall (1962-64). Farmer moved to Vienna in 1968 where he joined the Austrian Radio Orchestra and worked with Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band and had made tour with his own units. Since the 1980’s Farmer has visited the United States more often and has remained greatly in demand up to the present day.

Art Farmer has recorded many sessions as a leader through the years including for Prestige. United Artists, Contemporary, Mercury, Argo, Columbia, Atlantic, CTI, Enja, Sweet Basil and Concord.

]]> http://www.terraverdemusic.org/art-farmer/feed/ 1 The King of Jazz http://www.terraverdemusic.org/the-king-of-jazz/ http://www.terraverdemusic.org/the-king-of-jazz/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:29:09 +0000 http://www.terraverdemusic.org/?p=5 During the  evolution of Jazz music in the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was declared  the King of Jazz by the media, for he has the most commercially and most popular jazz band during the Jazz Age. His music emphasizes jazz, which is already an established kind of music since 1910, through the way he organized his composition and style. Among his popular recorded music was Hoagy Carmichael and Washboard Blues which he sings to the accompaniment of his own orchestra.

Most dance bands in that time consisted only of six to 10 members, Paul Whiteman orchestra has a large and imposing group that consists as many as 35 musicians. He has composed so many jazz music and his recordings were extremely popular and commercially acclaimed, where he gain more respect in the Jazz Music.

Paul Whiteman believed that jazz music could be further improved by orchestrating formal arrangements, while todays jazz fanatic considers that improvisation as the essential factor in the musical style in Jazz.Courtesy of Space Planning

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