Azure (Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer album)

Azure is an album by American flugelhornist Art Farmer and Austrian pianist Fritz Pauer featuring performances recorded in 1987 and released on the Soul Note label.[1]

Azure
Studio album by
Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer
Released1987
RecordedJune 25–26 & September 9–10, 1987
StudioAustrophon Studios, Vienna, Austria
GenreJazz
Length39:55
LabelSoul Note
SN 1126
ProducerGiovanni Bonandrini
Art Farmer chronology
Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
(1987)
Azure
(1987)
Blame It On My Youth
(1988)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [3]

The Allmusic review called the album "A peaceful and mostly introspective release".[2]

Track listing edit

  1. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) - 4:32
  2. "Nighttime" (Fritz Pauer) - 3:58
  3. "Yesterday's Thoughts" (Benny Golson) - 4:56
  4. "Blue Windows" (Traditional) - 3:19
  5. "Azure" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 4:15
  6. "Sound Within an Empty Room" (Pauer) - 6:13
  7. "Soul Eyes" (Mal Waldron) - 4:22
  8. "Danielle" (Al Cohn) - 4:17
  9. "Song of Praise" (Pauer) - 4:03

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Art Farmer discography Archived January 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine accessed June 14, 2012
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed June 14, 2012
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.