Art Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He and his identical twin brother, double bassist Addison Farmer, started playing professionally while at high school in Los Angeles. Art gained greater attention after the release of a recording of his composition "Farmer's Market" in 1952. He moved fromto New York in 1953, where he performed and recorded with musicians such as Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and Gerry Mulligan, becaming known principally as a bebop player.  From 1959-62 his Jazztet (founded with Benny Golson) recorded albums for Argo and Mercury; and his trio with Jim Hall and Streve Swallow gave him a serious foothold with European jazz fans.  From 1968, he settled in Europe, travelling the length and breadth of the continent with the Clarke-Boland Big Band and the Austrian Radio Orchestra.  From the 1990s, he divided his time time between Europe and New York. Art  Farmer was awarded the Austrian Gold Medal of Merit in 1994 and, in 1999 he was selected as an NEA Jazz Master.