Art Farmer, Benny Golson, The Jazztet – Meet The Jazztet

FYI, this album is also included in its entirety on the first disc of "The Complete Argo / Mercury Art Farmer / Benny Golson / Jazztet Sessions": https://www.discogs.com/release/2914837-Art-Farmer-Benny-Golson-Jazztet-The-Complete-Argo-Mercury-Art-Farmer-Benny-Golson-Jazztet-Sessions

The music on this album is, of course, phenomenal. It's one of the all time great jazz groups. That said, every Cadet release I own is sub par in sound quality. It can be a tricky choice: pay quite a lot for an original pressing or get this pressing at a good price but inferior quality.

It is more likely that these funckler pressings are pressed mid sixties

Such a great, warm-sounding record, full of tracks that are played to this day. Ralph Gleason's liner notes have some cool background on the group's origins. Contrary to the standard of the day, Farmer and Golson had a concept for a band that was so much about the music that they did not want any of the player's names in the group's. They claimed it even caused them to threaten pulling gigs from clubs and promoters who snuck their names into the ads and billings...

From reading Gleason's notes, one gets the sense that this group was designed to last, though the original incarnation only made it around for a few years and records, splitting up in 1962. Incredibly, Golson and Farmer resurrected the name over 30 years later in the mid-80s, playing together until Farmer's death in 1999.