Joe Farnsworth: Information from Answers.com

Influenced By:

Art Blakey, Alan Dawson, Art Taylor, Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, Billy Higgins

Performed Songs By:

Cedar Walton

Worked With:

David Hazeltine, Max Bolleman, Gerry Teekens, Jim Rotondi, Benny Golson, Eric Alexander, Cecil Payne

Formal Connection With:

The Joy of Sax, One for All, Jim Rotondi, Eric Alexander

Active: '90s, 2000s
Genres: Jazz
Instrument: Drums
Representative Albums: "It's Prime Time," "Beautiful Friendship"

Biography

Drummer Joe Farnsworth has earned the admiration of both his contemporaries and jazz veterans for his sparkling cymbal work and effervescent sense of time. Farnsworth was one of five sons of trumpeter, band director, and Stan Kenton fan Roger Farnsworth. He and his brothers were all exposed to jazz and he began playing on his older brother, David's, drum set. He attended William Paterson College, studying with pianist Harold Mabern Jr. and drummer Arthur Taylor. His sensitive, hard bop-based style enabled him to fit on sessions with Cecil Payne, Mabern, and Junior Cook. Farnsworth has also been a close associate of Criss Cross labelmates Eric Alexander (tenor saxophone) and Steve Davis (trombone), who both participated in his debut recording, "Beautiful Friendship," on Criss Cross, and, together with pianist David Hazeltine and trumpeter Jim Rotondi, work in the cooperative hard bop sextet One for All. ~ David Dupont, All Music Guide

	Three Baritone Saxophone Band (Jazz Band, '90s)
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