Killer Joe

Art Farmer & Benny Golson Jazztet · 1960 · Golson composition, last track of Meet the Jazztet (Argo, February 1960) with Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller and McCoy Tyner.

Context

Composed by Benny Golson, "Killer Joe" opens Meet the Jazztet, the first record of the sextet he co-led with Art Farmer, recorded in February 1960 at Nola Penthouse Studios in New York for Argo. The label, attentive to singles, kept the tracks short: released as a 45 rpm, the track reportedly sold more than 40,000 copies by summer 1960 and, according to Golson, brought the group to attention. Scott Yanow (AllMusic) considers the album a hard bop classic.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• I Remember Clifford (1960)
• Whisper Not (1957)

Sources

• EN: Meet the Jazztet

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