Modern Art is the prelude recording for Art Farmer prior to his
partnership with Benny Golson in the Jazztet, and also foreshadows the
classy, tasteful inventiveness that group brought to the modern jazz
world two years after this 1958 session. Pianist Bill Evans is in here,
just before his pivotal work with Miles Davis on the classic album Kind
of Blue, and was the table setter for McCoy Tyner's membership in the
Jazztet. Brother Addison Farmer on bass and the great drummer Dave
Bailey round out this sterling quintet that specializes in playing music
with a subtle approach, which is neither tame nor conservatively lazy.
Included on this date is the great Junior Mance tune "Jubilation,"
perfectly understated in a light gospel, soul-jazz, tuneful melody with
both horns wonderfully matched up in balanced unison, side by side.
Farmer's lone compositional contribution, "Mox Nix," deserves similar
iconic accolades, as it is an equally memorable, hopped-up shuffle with
the uncharacteristically rumbling piano of Evans in soul-jazz to swing
trim. Another notable track is Wade Legge's "Cold Breeze," which is
hardly refrigerated, but instead a breezy hard bop vehicle, snappy,
even-keeled, but not bubbling. The trumpeter, after all, is the official
leader and arranger, taking the stage front and center for the ballad
"Darn That Dream" and the midtempo take of "The Touch of Your Lips,"
with Golson in late, seconding the motions. For this time period, you
clearly hear a refined and maturing Farmer, qualities he would retain
for the remainder of his substantial career. He plops in the mute for
Cole Porter's "I Love You," waxing poetic and effortlessly like a figure
skater gliding through a simple routine, and Evans even gets to jam out
a bit. Benny Golson's personal voice on tenor is also coming of age, as
you hear during his feature "Like Someone in Love," but he's also
starting to emerge as a writer with the moderately swinging "Fair
Weather," displaying harmonic interplay that hints at things to come.
The historical aspects of this recording, in retrospect, cannot be
trivialized, but more importantly, some darn good straight-ahead jazz is
played here by experts in their field. Michael G. Nastos
Tracklist :
1 Mox Nix 4:39
Written-By – Art Farmer
2 Fair Weather 5:44
Written-By – Benny Golson
3 Darn That Dream 3:59
Written-By – DeLange, Van Heusen
4 The Touch Of Your Lips 4:54
Written-By – Ray Noble
5 Jubilation 4:17
Written-By – Junior Mance
6 Like Someone In Love 5:56
Written-By – Burke-Van Heusen
7 I Love You 7:01
Written-By – Cole Porter
8 Cold Breeze 3:58
Written-By – Legge
Credits :
Bass – Addison Farmer
Drums – Dave Bailey
Piano – Bill Evans
Sleeve – Marvin Israel
Tenor Saxophone – Benny Golson
Trumpet – Art Farmer
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