Addison Farmer
Addison Gerald Farmer (August 21, 1928, Council Bluffs, Iowa – February 20, 1963, New York City) was an American jazz bassist. He was the twin brother of Art Farmer.
Early life
Farmer was born an hour after his twin brother, on August 21, 1928, in Council 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 to Phoenix, Arizona when he was still four.[5]: 1–3
Farmer and his brother moved to Los Angeles in 1945, attending the music-oriented Jefferson High School, where they gained music instruction and met other developing musicians such as Sonny Criss, Ernie Andrews, Big Jay McNeely and Ed Thigpen.[6] The brothers earned money by working in a cold-storage warehouse[1] and by playing professionally.
He took bass lessons from
Career
By late 1945, Farmer was with
Farmer died from
Discography
As sideman
With Mose Allison
With Gene Ammons
With Teddy Charles
With Art Farmer
With Mal Waldron
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With others
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References
- ^ a b Balliett, 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 Bluffs Barnhart Press. Cited in: Longden, Tom "Art Farmer" DesMoinesRegister.com Archived 2013-04-10 at archive.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" Archived May 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Addison Farmer at Allmusic