Warm Valley Explained

Warm Valley
Type:	Album
Artist:	Art Farmer
Cover:	Warm Valley.jpg
Released:	1983
Recorded:	September 1982
Studio:	Soundmixers, NYC
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	39:04
Label:	Concord CJ 212
Producer:	Carl Jefferson
Chronology:	Art Farmer
Prev Title:	Mirage
Prev Year:	1982
Next Title:	Moment to Moment
Next Year:	1983

Warm Valley is an album by American jazz trumpeter Art Farmer recorded in New York in 1982 and originally released on the Concord label.^[1]

Reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic said: "The second of flugelhornist Art Farmer's two Concord albums is the equal of his first... Art Farmer is heard in prime form, playing in his appealing lyrical bop style".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Moose the Mooche" (Charlie Parker) - 4:31
2. "And Now There's You" (Fred Hersch) - 5:09
3. "Three Little Words" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) - 4:49
4. "Eclypso" (Tommy Flanagan) - 5:28
5. "Sad to Say" (Benny Golson) - 5:34
6. "Upper Manhattan Medical Group" (Billy Strayhorn) - 5:41
7. "Warm Valley" (Duke Ellington) - 7:52

Personnel

• Art Farmer - flugelhorn
• Fred Hersch - piano
  • Ray Drummond - bass Akira Tana - drums

Notes and References

1. http://www.discogs.com/Art-Farmer-Quartet-The-Warm-Valley/release/4669330 Discogs album entry
2. Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 30, 2014.