Blame It on My Youth

Art Farmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 1991)
• Original Release Date: September 21, 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Contemporary
• ASIN: B000000X9U
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,640 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prize of my collection, April 13, 2004

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Galen - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blame It on My Youth (Audio CD)

This is the prize of my collection. I have been thrilling to this cd for over 5 years now and when I put it on I dont want to hear anything else for days afterwards. Every performer plays masterfully and the balance between the instruments is so perfectly recorded that you can hear each with perfect clarity at all times. Truly Helen Keane should be counted as member of the group. This cd doesnt break ground, it is not provacative, it is just jazz played better than anything else recorded. Just buy it and you will wish they had recorded more than 3 cds together like the rest of us fans of this cd.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Impeccable work of art, June 2, 2001

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Ricard Giner ([e-mail]) (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blame It on My Youth (Audio CD)

Blame It On My Youth is a major work of art. It perfectly integrates composition, improvisation and studio recording technique. There are no Art Farmer originals, they're all judiciously selected pieces, carefully ordered to produce a cohesive whole and bringing out beautifully crafted interpretations from the musicians. The sound, the tempo and the material fall unambiguously into the hard bop category, but the nature of the treatment is undeniably contemporary: it makes a virtue of academic precision but it maintains a distinct emotional engagement, suggesting that the musicians' feelings about the music involve tenderness, awe, and a charmed curiosity.

The tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan contributes one arresting up-tempo composition, "Third Avenue", which is followed by a slower Benny Carter number, the utterly luxurious "Summer Serenade". The whole event is held together magisterially by Victor Lewis, a brilliant, eclectic drummer whose contribution to the architecture of album is central. Blame It On My Youth provides not just increasing pleasure on every listening, it also provides some hope, against the sceptics, that jazz has still a lot of life left in it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prime-Cut Straight-Ahead Jazz Delicacy, March 8, 2007

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David Conklin (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blame It on My Youth (Audio CD)

This may not blow your socks off right away, but chances are it will eventually work its way to the higher echelons of your jazz collection. While the lyrical trumpeter made many outstanding recordings, this 1988 album must be one of his best for shear beauty and enjoyment. There's a good mix of ballads and medium-tempo numbers, and every song is very, very (add your own superlative). Great balance between Farmer and his front-line partner (Clifford Jordan) on soprano and tenor sax. Great sound quality (for me, this makes it a slightly better choice than MODERN ART, another of my favorites). Get it soon.