The Jazztet

Moment To Moment is a 1983 studio album by The Jazztet, the sextet led by flugelhornist Art Farmer and tenor saxophonist Benny Golson. It was recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milan on May 30 and 31, 1983 for Soul Note. The band had first recorded in February 1960 in New York for Meet The Jazztet on Argo, with Curtis Fuller on trombone. Farmer and Golson revived the name two decades later, recording Voices All in Tokyo in April 1982, and Fuller is back in the front line here.

The rhythm section is Mickey Tucker on piano, Ray Drummond on bass and Albert Heath on drums. Heath had been the Jazztet's drummer as early as 1960 and 1961, on Big City Sounds and the Chicago live album At Birdhouse. Drummond had recorded Mirage for Soul Note with Farmer's quintet in 1982. Giovanni Bonandrini produced, Giancarlo Barigozzi recorded the session, and Gennaro Carone mastered it at the PolyGram plant in Tribiano; Leonard Feather wrote the liner notes. Golson wrote five of the six pieces: the title track, nearly nine minutes long, Along Came Betty, Fair Weather, Yesterday's Thoughts and Ease Away Walk. The sixth is Farmer's Farmer's Market, a tune the Jazztet had already played at the Birdhouse in May 1961. Six months after this date the band, billed as The New Jazztet, was back in the studio in New York with Rufus Reid and Billy Hart.

This is the Soul Note CD 121066-2, pressed by MPO, of the album first released on LP in 1983 as SN 1066.