87th birthday of Art Farmer

(Born 21 August 1928, Council Bluffs, Iowa, US)

Very distinguished lyrical flugelhorn player and trumpeter with grace and sensitive tonality, composer and bandleader

(Art Farmer Quintet, “Johnny come lately” [personnel: Farmer, fluguelhorn, Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; James Williams, piano; Rufus Reid, bass; Marvin “Smitty” Smith, drums; recorded: Contemporary, New York, 14 and 15 January 1987])

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