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Back to the City

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Released
  
1986

Back to the City (1986)
  
Real Time (1986)

Producer
  
Helen Keane

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
45:05

Release date
  
1986

Label
  
Fantasy Records

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Recorded
  
February 21 & 22, 1986 Sweet Basil, New York City

Artists
  
The Jazztet, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller

Similar
  
Moment to Moment, Real Time, Another Git Together, Big City Sounds, The Jazztet at Birdhouse

Back to the City is a live album by the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet featuring Curtis Fuller recorded at the Sweet Basil Jazz Club in New York in 1986 and originally released on the Contemporary label.

Contents

Reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls the album "Timeless hard bop music".The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars saying it "features some lesser known items from the band's book, including a rare outing for Farmer as a composer".

Track listing

All compositions by Benny Golson except as indicated

  1. "Back to the City" - 7:55
  2. "From Dream to Dream" - 6:49
  3. "Write Soon" (Art Farmer) - 9:44
  4. "Vas Simeon" - 7:31
  5. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 6:07
  6. "Without Delay/Time Speaks" - 6:59

Personnel

  • Art Farmer - flugelhorn
  • Benny Golson - tenor saxophone
  • Curtis Fuller - trombone
  • Mickey Tucker - piano
  • Ray Drummond - bass
  • Marvin "Smitty" Smith - drums

    • Songs

    1Back to the City7:54
    2From Dream to Dream6:47
    3Write Soon9:43

    References

    Back to the City Wikipedia
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