ART FARMER: FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS (PORTRAIT OF ART FARMER / MODERN ART / ART FARMER QUINTET FEAT GIGI GRYCE / THE JAZZTET AND JOHN LEWIS) (2CD)

AVID Jazz here presents four classic Art Farmer albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Portrait of Art Farmer”; “Modern Art”; “Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce” and “Jazztet and John Lewis”A pretty handy quartet kicks off our first selection in our Art Farmer foursome “Portrait of Art Farmer”. Art himself on trumpet of course, Hank Jones at the piano, Arts twin brother Addison on bass and the one and only Roy Haynes on drums, having just left Sarah Vaughan. Also recorded in New York in 1958 “Modern Art” finds Art as a maturing artist having absorbed many influences along the way from the likes of Charlie Parker, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan and Lionel Hampton amongst others. He was now a member of his own “school” and here his “classmates” include Benny Golson on tenor, Bill Evans on piano (then in the Miles Davis Quintet, and who would go on to record Kind Of Blue with Miles the following year!) , brother Addison on bass and