Farmers by Nature

Farmers by Nature
Farmers by Nature
Live album by Gerald Cleaver, William Parker, Craig Taborn
Released	2009
Recorded	June 19, 2008
Venue	The Stone, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	65:07
Label	AUM Fidelity
Producer	Gerald Cleaver, Steven Joerg
Gerald Cleaver chronology

Farmers by Nature is an album by the collective jazz trio of Gerald Cleaver (drums), William Parker (bass), and Craig Taborn (piano). Cleaver specifically brought the trio together. They had previously played together on Rob Brown's album Crown Trunk Root Funk. The album was recorded live at The Stone in 2008 and released by the AUM Fidelity label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Down Beat	^[3]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "Farmers by Nature is not for the casual jazz fan. It gives up its secrets slowly, but the gems hidden in this sonic earth are plentiful, poetic, and remarkable."^[2]

In Down Beat, Bill Meyer wrote: "The trio ranges freely between pulse-based lyricism, surging energy and gnomic exchanges, as though they were following an elliptical orbit that takes them far out, only to come close again."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Cleaver/Parker/Taborn

"Korteh Khah" – 3:18
"The Night" – 8:42
"Cranes" – 16:40
"Not Unlike Number 10" – 15:35
"In Trees" – 6:57
"Fieda Mytlie" – 13:55

Personnel

References

^ Farmers by Nature Archived September 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at AUM Fidelity
^ ^a ^b Jurek, Thom. Gerald Cleaver – Farmers by Nature: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Meyer, Bill. Farmers by Nature review. Down Beat May 09: page 76. Print.

[AUM-1] Farmers by Nature Archived September 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at AUM Fidelity

[Allmusic-2] Jurek, Thom. Gerald Cleaver – Farmers by Nature: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 27, 2015.

[DownBeat-3] Meyer, Bill. Farmers by Nature review. Down Beat May 09: page 76. Print.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace (1974-1979) Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (1995) Painter's Spring (2000) O'Neal's Porch (2000) Piercing the Veil (with Hamid Drake, 2000) Raining on the Moon (2001) Bob's Pink Cadillac (2001) Scrapbook (2002) Luc's Lantern (2004) Summer Snow (with Hamid Drake, 2005) Alphaville Suite (2007) Corn Meal Dance (2007) Petit Oiseau (2007) Beyond Quantum (with Anthony Braxton and Milford Graves, 2008) Uncle Joe's Spirit House (2010) Out of This World's Distortions (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2010) The Gowanus Session (with Thollem McDonas and Nels Cline, 2012) 2 Blues for Cecil (with Andrew Cyrille and Enrico Rava, 2021)
Live albums	Melodic Art–Tet (with Charles Brackeen, Ahmed Abdullah, and Roger Blank, 1974) In Order to Survive (1993) Harras (with Derek Bailey and John Zorn, 1993) Sunrise in the Tone World (1995) The Peach Orchard (1997 & 1998) Posium Pendasem (1998) Mass for the Healing of the World (1998) 2 Days in April (with Fred Anderson, 1999) Mayor of Punkville (1999) Fractured Dimensions (1999) Raincoat in the River (2001) Eloping with the Sun (with Joe Morris and Hamid Drake, 2001) I Plan to Stay a Believer (2001, 2002, 2007, & 2008) Spontaneous (2002) Historic Music Past Tense Future (with Peter Brötzmann and Milford Graves, 2002) Sound Unity (2004) Requiem (2004) For Percy Heath (2005) Wood Flute Songs (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, & 2012) Double Sunrise Over Neptune (2007) Farmers by Nature (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2008) Tribute to Albert Ayler Live at the Dynamo (with Roy Campbell Jr., Joe McPhee, and Warren Smith, 2008) Winter Sun Crying (2009) Medicine Buddha (with Billy Bang, 2009) Love and Ghosts (with Gerald Cleaver and Craig Taborn, 2011) Essence of Ellington (2012)
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