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From the Archives: Jazz Trumpeter Art Farmer.
Flugelhorn and trumpet player Art Farmer. This month the National Endowment for the Arts named him one of its 1999 American Jazz Masters. He joins such previous honorees as Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Miles Davis and Sarah Vaughan. Born in 1928 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Art Farmer made his first record in 1948 as a sideman with Kansas-City legend Jay McShann.
The First Great T.V. Treat of the New Year.
TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new HBO series "Sopranos."
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