Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
Studio album by
Released1987
RecordedJanuary 14–15, 1987
New York City
GenreJazz
Length38:42
LabelContemporary
C 14029
ProducerHelen Keane
Art Farmer chronology
Real Time
(1986)
Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
(1987)
Blame It on My Youth
(1988)

Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn is an album by Art Farmer recorded in New York in 1987 and originally released on the Contemporary label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Scott Yanow of Allmusic said "This very logical set is a real gem... Farmer brings the right combination of sensitivity, swing, respect for the melody, and creativity to these renditions and the results are quite memorable".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Strayhorn except as indicated

  1. "Isfahan" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 7:25
  2. "Blood Count" - 6:08
  3. "Johnny Come Lately" - 5:39
  4. "Something to Live For" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 6:07
  5. "Upper Manhattan Medical Group" - 7:07
  6. "Rain Check" - 6:44
  7. "Day Dream" (Ellington, Strayhorn, John La Touche) - 5:12 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Art Farmer discography accessed July 30, 2014
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 30, 2014
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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