Cheap To Sweden with Love (Music) (Art Farmer Quartet) Price

Reissues like this one are always befuddling. Why has a session featuring the great Art Farmer's flügelhorn next to guitarist Jim Hall's chameleonic grace, bassist Steve Swallow's feather-touch bass, and Pete LaRoca's drums languished in the vaults for decades? Farmer and his crew use Swedish folk melodies as the basis for each of the six songs here, and at points it begins to sound like modal jazz in the 1960s had some odd Nordic strain that's gone heretofore unremarked upon. Farmer's never allowed himself to be bullied or hurried, favoring wide swaths of tone over speed or even exactness. Hall's perfect at this game, playing clean and pristine single notes and then ripping into a grit-filled series of riffs that precede an unerringly risky solo of bent corners and blunted runs. Farmer's mid-1960s discography has lots of material in it, and this short session (time length is just over 32 minutes) adds far more than its duration hints. --Andrew Bartlett

ARTIST:	Art Farmer Quartet
CATEGORY:	Music
MANUFACTURER:	Koch Records
TYPE:	Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Jazz, Pop
MEDIA:	Audio CD
TRACKS:	Va da du? (Was It You?), De Salde Sina Hemman (They Sold Their Homestead), Den Motstravige Brudgummen (The Reluctant Groom), Och Hor du Unga Dora (And Listen Young Dora), Kristallen Den Fina (The Fine Crystal), Visa Vid Midsommartid (Midsummer Song)
UPC:	099923851028