Back to the City

Back to the City
Live album by Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet featuring Curtis Fuller
Released 1986
Recorded February 21 & 22, 1986
Sweet Basil, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 45:05
Label Contemporary
C 14020
Producer Helen Keane
The Jazztet chronology

Nostalgia
(1983)		 Back to the City
(1986)		 Real Time
(1986)

Back to the City is a live album by the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet featuring Curtis Fuller recorded at the Sweet Basil Jazz Club in New York in 1986 and originally released on the Contemporary label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz [3]

Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls the album "Timeless hard bop music".[2]The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars saying it "features some lesser known items from the band's book, including a rare outing for Farmer as a composer".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Benny Golson except as indicated

  1. "Back to the City" - 7:55
  2. "From Dream to Dream" - 6:49
  3. "Write Soon" (Art Farmer) - 9:44
  4. "Vas Simeon" - 7:31
  5. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 6:07
  6. "Without Delay/Time Speaks" - 6:59

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Art Farmer discography accessed July 31, 2014
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 31, 2014
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Art Farmer". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (8th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-141-02327-4.