''Azure'' is an album by American flugelhornist

Art Farmer Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, double ...

and Austrian pianist Fritz Pauer featuring performances recorded in 1987 and released on the

Soul Note Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels. Since their conception in the 1970s, they have released albums from a variety of influential jazz musicians, particularly in the genre of free jazz. History Black S ...

label.Art Farmer discography
accessed June 14, 2012

Reception

The Allmusic review called the album "A peaceful and mostly introspective release".Yanow, S
Allmusic Review
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Track listing

# " If You Could See Me Now" ( Tadd Dameron,

Carl Sigman Carl Sigman (September 24, 1909 – September 26, 2000) was an American songwriter. Early life Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish-American family, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his bar exams to practice in ...

) - 4:32 # "Nighttime" (Fritz Pauer) - 3:58 # "Yesterday's Thoughts" (

Benny Golson Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launch ...

) - 4:56 # "Blue Windows" (Traditional) - 3:19 # "Azure" (

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based ...

Irving Mills Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose. Personal Mills was ...

) - 4:15 # "Sound Within an Empty Room" (Pauer) - 6:13 # " Soul Eyes" (

Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...

) - 4:22 # "Danielle" ( Al Cohn) - 4:17 # "Song of Praise" (Pauer) - 4:03

Personnel

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

*Fritz Pauer - piano

References

Black Saint/Soul Note albums Art Farmer albums 1987 albums {{1980s-jazz-album-stub