{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Baroque Sketches | type = Album | artist = [[Art Farmer]] and the Baroque Orchestra | cover = Baroque Sketches.jpg | alt = | released = 1967 | recorded = September 13 & 15, 1966 | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] | producer = [[Teo Macero]] | chronology = [[Art Farmer]] | prev_title = [[The Time and the Place: The Lost Concert]] | prev_year = 1966 | next_title = [[The Time and the Place (Art Farmer album)|The Time and the Place]] | next_year = 1967 }}
'''''Baroque Sketches''''' is an album by trumpeter [[Art Farmer]] featuring performances recorded in 1966 and released on the [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] label in 1967.<ref name="Art Farmer discography">[https://www.jazzdisco.org/art-farmer/catalog/#columbia-cl-2588 Art Farmer discography], accessed July 27, 201.4</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''[[Penguin Guide to Jazz]]'' | rev1Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide"/> | rev2 = ''[[Allmusic]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>}} ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]'' stated: "''Baroque Sketches'' is a mix of genuine and pastiche baroque (from Bach to John Lewis) helped up with what amount to boogaloo rhythms. Benny Golson was smart enough to make the charts straddle kitsch and a more proper jazz feeling and Farmer, the consummate pro, plays seriously enough".<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|orig-year = 1992|edition = 8th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2006|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-141-02327-4|pages = [https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/431 431]|chapter = Art Farmer|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/431}}</ref>
The [[Allmusic]] review said: "Art Farmer enjoyed playing pieces with strong melodies, and the original concept of ''Baroque Sketches'' was to adapt the music of Johann Sebastian Bach into a jazz setting. After initial research, it was decided to also include works by Chopin and Albeniz, as well as John Lewis' "Little David's Fugue" and Sonny Rollins' "Alfie Theme." With arrangements by his former Jazztet partner Benny Golson, Farmer creates music that is entertaining, though unlikely to stand up to repeated listening".<ref name="Allmusic">Dryden, K. [https://www.allmusic.com/album/baroque-sketches-the-time-and-the-place-mw0000591019 Allmusic Review], accessed July 27, 2014.</ref>
==Track listing== # "[[The Art of Fugue|Fuja XI]]" ([[Johann Sebastian Bach]]) - 3:01 # "[[List of songs and arias of Johann Sebastian Bach|Aria]]" (Bach) - 3:56 # "Little David's Fuge" ([[John Lewis (pianist)|John Lewis]]) - 2:37 # "[[Preludes (Chopin)|Prelude in E Minor]]" ([[Frédéric Chopin]]) - 2:58 # "[[Inventions and Sinfonias (Bach)|Sinfonia]]" (Bach) - 2:26 # "Zortzico" ([[Isaac Albéniz]]) - 2:17 # "Alfie's Theme" ([[Sonny Rollins]]) - 2:03 # "[[Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227|Jesu]]" (Bach) - 3:34 # "[[Études (Chopin)|Etude]]" (Chopin) - 3:25 # "[[Preludes (Chopin)|Prelude in A Minor]]" (Chopin) - 2:55 # "Rhythm of Life" ([[Cy Coleman]], [[Dorothy Fields]]) - 2:43
==Personnel== *[[Art Farmer]] - [[flugelhorn]] *[[Don Butterfield]] - [[tuba]] *Ted Gompers, Romeo Penque - [[reed instrument|reeds]] *[[George Duvivier]] – [[double bass|bass]] *[[Don Lamond]] - [[drum kit|drums]] *Phil Kraus [[percussion]] *[[Benny Golson]] - [[arrangement|arranger]] *Unknown musicians - [[trumpet]], [[flugelhorn]], [[trombone]], [[French horn]], [[harp]]
== References == {{reflist}} {{Art Farmer}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Columbia Records albums]] [[Category:Art Farmer albums]] [[Category:1967 albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Teo Macero]]