Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce

Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce (also released as Evening in Casablanca) is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer's Quintet featuring saxophonist Gigi Gryce. It was recorded in 1955 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce
Studio album by
Art Farmer
Released1956
RecordedOctober 21, 1955
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length34:30
LabelPrestige
P 7017
ProducerBob Weinstock
Art Farmer chronology
When Farmer Met Gryce
(1955)		 Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce
(1956)		 2 Trumpets
(1956)
Gigi Gryce chronology
When Farmer Met Gryce
(1954–55)		 Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce
(1955)		 Nica's Tempo
(1955)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

In his review for Allmusic, Stephen Cook calls the album "a set that qualifies as one of Farmer's best. A must for every jazz collection".[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz is similarly positive, giving it a maximum four-star rating. It comments on the strengths of Gryce's compositions, mentioning "Evening in Casablanca" and "Satellite" for their "unusual structures" and "Nica's Tempo" for being "constructed more from key centres than from chords, [it] might be his masterpiece".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Gigi Gryce except where noted.

  1. "Forecast" (Duke Jordan) – 4:48
  2. "Evening in Casablanca" – 5:20
  3. "Nica's Tempo" – 7:50
  4. "Satellite" – 4:21
  5. "Sans Souci" – 6:39
  6. "Shabozz" – 5:32

Personnel

References
  1. Prestige Records discography accessed August 31, 2012
  2. Cook, S. Allmusic Review accessed June 18, 2012
  3. Cook, Richard & Morton, Brian (2008) The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, p. 469. Penguin.
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