People

Art Farmer

  • Name: Art Farmer
  • Birthday: 1928-08-21
  • Place of birth: Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
  • Popularity: 0.1691
Biography: Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, double bassist Addison Farmer, started playing professionally while at high school in Los Angeles. Art gained greater attention after the release of a recording of his composition "Farmer's Market" in 1952. He subsequently moved from Los Angeles to New York, where he performed and recorded with musicians such as Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, and Gigi Gryce and became known principally as a bebop player. As Farmer's reputation grew, he expanded from bebop... Read More

Movies:

Title Release date
Jazz Icons: Art Farmer Live in '64   as  Self 2009-10-27
Ella Fitzgerald: Live in Cologne   as  Self - Trumpet & Flugelhorn 1974-04-09
The Subterraneans   as  Art Farmer 1960-06-23
Jazz on a Summer's Day   as  Self 1960-03-28
I Want to Live!   as  Jazz Combo Member 1958-11-18