Addison Farmer
Addison Gerald Farmer(August 21, 1928,Council Bluffs, Iowa– February 20, 1963, New York City) was an Americanjazzbassist. He was the twin brother ofArt Farmer.
Early life
[edit]Farmer was born an hour after his twin brother, on August 21, 1928, inCouncil Bluffs, Iowa,reportedly at 2201 Fourth Avenue.[1][2]Their parents, James Arthur Farmer and Hazel Stewart Farmer, divorced when the boys were four, and their steelworker father was killed in a work accident not long after this.[3][4]: 443 Addison moved with his grandfather, grandmother, mother, brother and sister toPhoenix, Arizonawhen he was still four.[5]: 1–3
Farmer and his brother moved toLos Angelesin 1945, attending the music-orientedJefferson High School,where they gained music instruction and met other developing musicians such asSonny Criss,Ernie Andrews,Big Jay McNeelyandEd Thigpen.[6]The brothers earned money by working in a cold-storage warehouse[1]and by playing professionally.
He took bass lessons fromFrederick Zimmermann,and studied atJuilliardand theManhattan School of Music.
Career
[edit]By late 1945, Farmer was withJohnny Alstonand His Orchestra recording for theBihari Brothers'Modern Musiclabel, backingJeanne Demetzand, shortly after, on theBlue Moonlabel.[7]Other band members for those recording dates includedAl "Cake" WichardandKing Fleming.He later recorded withTeddy Edwards's band. Farmer played in several groups with his brother, including in ensembles led byBenny GolsonandGigi Gryce.He also played withMose Allison,Jay McShann,Charlie Parker,andMiles Davis.He recorded extensively forPrestige Records.
Farmer died fromsudden unexpected death syndromeon February 20, 1963, in New York City at the age of 34.
Discography
[edit]As sideman
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abBalliett, Whitney (September 23, 1985) "Profiles: Here and Abroad"The New Yorker,pp. 43–55.
- ^Ramsey, William E. & Shrier, Betty Dineen (2002)Silent Hills Speak: A History of Council BluffsBarnhart Press. Cited in: Longden, Tom "Art Farmer"DesMoinesRegister.comArchived2013-04-10 atarchive.today
- ^Heckman, Don & Thurber, Jon (October 07, 1999) "Art Farmer: eloquent jazz master of the trumpet and fluegelhorn"Los Angeles Times.
- ^Balliett, Whitney (2006)American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz.University Press of Mississippi.
- ^"Art Farmer: NEA Jazz Master (1999)" (June 29–30, 1995)Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program NEA Jazz Master interview
- ^Bryant, Clora (1998)Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles.University of California Press.
- ^Campbell, Robert L.; Pruter, Robert and Büttner, Armin "The King Fleming Discography"ArchivedMay 21, 2009, at theWayback Machine
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- Manhattan School of Music alumni