MUSICIAN

Art Farmer

1928 - 1999

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Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, double bassist Addison Farmer, started playing professionally while at high school in Los Angeles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Art Farmer has received more than 336,007 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Art Farmer is the 1,098th most popular musician (down from 963rd in 2019), the 5,367th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,737th in 2019) and the 374th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Art Farmer ranks 1,098 out of 3,175. Before him are Mitski, John Scofield, Miroslav Vitouš, Tony Allen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Joseph Böhm. After him are Pat Martino, Franz Konwitschny, Tom Hamilton, Yakov Zak, Henry Cowell, and Julius Klengel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Art Farmer ranks 343. Before him are André Schwarz-Bart, Morihiro Saito, Hushang Ebtehaj, Arthur Foulkes, Nora Nova, and Dara Singh. After him are Flóra Kádár, Leon Fleisher, António Ribeiro, Giacomo Biffi, Sergey Kapitsa, and Elina Bystritskaya. Among people deceased in 1999, Art Farmer ranks 159. Before him are Minoru Chiaki, Riccardo Cucciolla, Rudolf Kárpáti, Henry Carlsson, Tatevik Sazandaryan, and Alfred Bickel. After him are Zuleykha Seyidmammadova, Jehan Buhan, Charles Crichton, Lee Falk, Galina Bystrova, and Joshua Nkomo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Art Farmer ranks 5,367 out of 20,380. Before him are Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941), Leo Huberman (1903), Karl Struss (1886), Kevin MacLeod (1972), Daniela Ruah (1983), and Willie Mays (1931). After him are Pat Martino (1944), David Crane (1957), Irwin Winkler (1931), Glenn Davis (1934), T. C. Boyle (1948), and Betsy Palmer (1926).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Art Farmer ranks 374. Before him are Lauryn Hill (1975), Michael Angelo Batio (1956), Matt Sorum (1960), Jack Sherman (1956), John Scofield (1951), and Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941). After him are Pat Martino (1944), Tom Hamilton (1951), Henry Cowell (1897), Hank Mobley (1930), Harry James (1916), and Leon Fleisher (1928).

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