# Art Farmer was perhaps the prettiest trumpeter to emerge in the 1950s: Videos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2020/11/22/art-farmer-was-perhaps-the-prettiest-trumpeter-to-emerge-in-the-1950s-videos/
- Published: 2020-11-22T21:29:57+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**If we’re evaluating jazz musicians on tone alone, Art Farmer was perhaps the prettiest
trumpeter and flugelhornist to emerge in the 1950s. **

Distinguished by a warm, orchestral sound on his horn, Farmer was equally lyrical
and spry as a composer and sideman. Virtually everything he played was elegantly
seductive and serious, and touches your heart. If all he recorded was _Work of Art_
in 1953, _Wisteria_ and _Soft Shoe_ in ’54 and _Farmer’s Market_ in ’56 (his second
recording of the song), he’d be remarkable.

Here are five video clips of Art Farmer in action on the flugelhorn in the 1960s:

Art Farmer in 1964 with guitarist Jim Hall…

Farmer and Jim in 1964 on Ralph J. Gleason’s _Jazz Casual_…

Farmer soloing in the Netherlands in 1966 along with alto saxophonist Lee Konitz,
trombonist Ake Persson and a group assembled by Oliver Nelson…

Farmer in Norway in 1968…

Farmer in Paris in 1969…

_Wisteria_…

_Soft Shoe_ with Sonny Rollins…

_Farmer’s Market_…

Farmer’s original recording of _Farmer’s Market_ with tenor saxophonist Wardell 
Gray in 1952…

Annie Ross’s vocalese of _Farmer’s Market_ in 1952…

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