Art and Perception

This album is the fullest and most complete evocation yet of Art Farmer as a soloist. Art had been thinking about and planning for this set for a year before he went into the studio. "I wanted," he explains, "to do a very intimate session. I wanted it to sound as if I were just sitting and talking to someone with the horn, talking to just one person. The feeling was to be as if the horn were in the room, right next to the listener."

PERCEPTION: Art Farmer (trumpet); Harold Mabern (piano); Roy McCurdy (drums); Tommy Williams (bass); New York 1961.