Art Farmer

Art Farmer's singularly beautiful tone on flugelhorn and trumpet, combined with his highly lyrical approach to improvisation, led to a luminous jazz career from the 1950s until his death in 1999. Though the work of his formative years as a second generation be-bopper was somewhat overshadowed at the time, he consistently brought forth inspired and refined jazz with a succession of small ensembles over the decades, and is particularly well known for the music he recorded while touring in Europe in the late 1950s.