Baroque Sketches

Baroque Sketches is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer featuring performances recorded in 1966 and released on the Columbia label in 1967.^[1]

Baroque Sketches
Studio album by Art Farmer and the Baroque Orchestra
Released	1967
Recorded	September 13 & 15, 1966 New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Columbia CS 9388
Producer	Teo Macero
Art Farmer chronology
The Time and the Place: The Lost Concert (1966) Baroque Sketches (1967) The Time and the Place (1967)

Reception

Professional ratings

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

The Penguin Guide to Jazz stated: "Baroque Sketches is a mix of genuine and pastiche baroque (from Bach to John Lewis) helped up with what amount to boogaloo rhythms. Benny Golson was smart enough to make the charts straddle kitsch and a more proper jazz feeling and Farmer, the consummate pro, plays seriously enough".^[2]

The Allmusic review said: "Art Farmer enjoyed playing pieces with strong melodies, and the original concept of Baroque Sketches was to adapt the music of Johann Sebastian Bach into a jazz setting. After initial research, it was decided to also include works by Chopin and Albeniz, as well as John Lewis' "Little David's Fugue" and Sonny Rollins' "Alfie Theme." With arrangements by his former Jazztet partner Benny Golson, Farmer creates music that is entertaining, though unlikely to stand up to repeated listening".^[3]

Track listing

1. "Fuja XI" (Johann Sebastian Bach) - 3:01
2. "Aria" (Bach) - 3:56
3. "Little David's Fuge" (John Lewis) - 2:37
4. "Prelude in E Minor" (Frédéric Chopin) - 2:58
5. "Sinfonia" (Bach) - 2:26
6. "Zortzico" (Isaac Albéniz) - 2:17
7. "Alfie's Theme" (Sonny Rollins) - 2:03
8. "Jesu" (Bach) - 3:34
9. "Etude" (Chopin) - 3:25
10. "Prelude in A Minor" (Chopin) - 2:55
11. "Rhythm of Life" (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields) - 2:43

Personnel

• Art Farmer - flugelhorn
• Don Butterfield - tuba
• Ted Gompers, Romeo Penque - reeds
• George Duvivier – bass
• Don Lamond - drums
• Phil Kraus percussion
• Benny Golson - arranger
• Unknown musicians - trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, French horn, harp

References

1. Art Farmer discography, accessed July 27, 201.4
2. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. "Art Farmer". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 431. ISBN 978-0-141-02327-4.
3. Dryden, K. Allmusic Review, accessed July 27, 2014.