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Jim Farmer (b. 1951, American) is an artist, composer and playwright with studios in Manhattan, New York and Litchfield, Connecticut. Farmer's collage-like paintings incorporate overlapping imagery from various sources, including literal objects, art, interior and, exterior landscapes.
About. Jim is a mixed media artist with studios in NYC and CT. Jim’s last one man show was at Gallery 105 in downtown Manhattan, June 2019. My academic failures were legendary especially to my parents. I grew up in Bayonne NJ in the ’50s and ’60s. Bayonne in those days, to me, was parks, movie theaters, and ice cream trucks.
Oct 4, 1999 · Art was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1928 (August 21), into a musical family that included his twin brother, the respected bassist Addison Farmer, who died in 1963. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, where he studied piano and violin in grammar school. Soldiered into playing the bugle for flag-raising ceremonies, young Art was assigned the ...
Hello, Jim Farmer is an Artist, Composer and Playwright with studios in New York and Connecticut. Welcome to his Gallery of work. ⇩
Constantly searching for an “ideal sound,” he would switch from trumpet to flugelhorn in the 1960s and then to the flumpet in the 1990s. Throughout his career, Farmer was adept at identifying collaborators who would complement his own skill set and musical preferences. Early on, these included Gigi Gryce and Quincy Jones both of whom he met ...
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 bassist Addison Farmer, started playing professionally while at high school in Los Angeles.
Art Farmer was a jazz musician who played trumpet, flugelhorn and flumpet. His appearances on record date from 1948 to 1998 and include more than 60 albums under his own name and more than 70 as a sideman, in addition to a dozen with the Jazztet .
