Art Farmer was a jazz multi-instrumentalist who straddled two of the great
periods in jazz music: be-bop, and avant-garde/modern, bringing his trumpet and
flugelhorn power to each style. Art and his brother Addison were both keen
musicians from early in their lives, finding influences in gospel and blues
music. Art dropped out of school early and moved to Los Angeles as swing and big
band jazz were being superseded by the faster, more abstracted, and harder
be-bop style. Already influenced by such be-bop luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie,
Freddie Webster, and future legend Miles Davi...