Mercury · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Listen To Art Farmer And The Orchestra
| Recorded | Aug 10 & Sep 20, 1962 |
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| Label | Mercury |
| Released | 1962 |
| Discogs | master 402770 |
The record
Lush big-band charts frame the horn on this 1962 Mercury outing, the arrangements leaning toward mood-music polish rather than the hard-bop grit of Farmer's small-group work. Worth digging up for how the orchestra sets off that burnished tone.
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 19 pressings on file.
| 1962 | Mercury · SR 60766 A1 — Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Test Pressing, Stereo earliest on file |
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| 1963 | Mercury — MONO |
| 1963 | Mercury · SR 60766 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1963 | Mercury · 125 308 MCL — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1963 | Mercury · MG 20766 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
| 1963 | Philips · SM-7105 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1963 | Mercury · SR 60766 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1963 | Mercury · SR-635-C — Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, Jukebox, Stereo |
| 1963 | Mercury · SR 60766 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1963 | Mercury · SR 60766 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1963 | Mercury · MG 20766 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo |
| 1963 | Mercury · MG 20766 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono |
| 1978 | Mercury · 6372 483 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue |
| 1979 | Mercury · 15PJ-18 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo |