- Jazz musician.
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 2001.
- Jazz flugelhornist and trumpeter.
- Worked in Los Angeles for a time as a hotel janitor and a hospital file clerk before joining Lionel Hampton's orchestra in 1952.
- Spent much time in Austria (after marrying a Viennese banker) becoming a member of the national radio big band.
- Formed the Jazztet with Benny Golson in the late 1950's.
- Had an identical twin brother, the double bass player Addison Farmer.
- In 1989, he created a trumpet-flugelhorn hybrid, called 'flumpet', constructed for him by instrument maker David Monette.
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