Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Studio album by Art Farmer

Released

1987

Recorded

January 14 & 15, 1987
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

38:42

Label

Contemporary
C 14029

Producer

Helen 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
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

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

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

Personnel

References

↑ Art Farmer discography accessed July 30, 2014
1 2 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 30, 2014

Art Farmer

Studio albums	When Farmer Met Gryce (1955) Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce (1955) The Art Farmer Septet (1956) Farmer's Market (1956) 2 Trumpets (1957) Three Trumpets (1957) Last Night When We Were Young (1958) Portrait of Art Farmer (1958) Modern Art (1958) Brass Shout (1959) The Aztec Suite (1959) Art (1961) Early Art (1962) Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (1963) Interaction (1963) Perception (1964) To Sweden with Love (1964) The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964) Sing Me Softly of the Blues (1965) New York Jazz Sextet: Group Therapy (1966) Baroque Sketches (1966) The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (1967) Homecoming (1971) Gentle Eyes (1972) Yesterday's Thoughts (1976) To Duke with Love (1976) On the Road (1976) The Summer Knows (1977) Crawl Space (1977) Something You Got (1977) Big Blues (1979) Yama (1979) Manhattan (1982) Mirage (1982) Warm Valley (1983) You Make Me Smile (1985) Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1987) Azure (1987) Blame It on My Youth (1988) Ph.D. (1989) The Time and the Place (2007)

Live albums	Live at the Half-Note (1964) The Time and the Place: The Lost Concert (1966) Art Farmer Quintet at Boomers (1976) Central Avenue Reunion (1989)

Related	Discography The Jazztet

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