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Joe Farnsworth Big Room 2025  24-96

On THE BIG ROOM, drummer JOE FARNSWORTH leads an intergenerational sextet into a place of transcendent creativity and imagination. The album features a stellar cast of player/composers blending modern masters and rising stars: trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, vibraphonist Joel Ross, pianist Emmet Cohen, and bassist Yasushi Nakamura.

The title references a concept that Farnsworth heard about for years from some of the legendary masters that he has counted as mentors and collaborators—artists like Max Roach, Jackie McLean, and Ron Carter. “The Big Room isn’t a place,” Farnsworth relates, “but a spiritual dimension, a vast, wide-open terrain that only the most gifted of artists could reach. It’s a place where all of the discipline, rules, and language that a musician spends a lifetime mastering suddenly fade, and pure, transcendent creation can occur.

Long associated with dyed-in-the-wool tradition, Farnsworth hasn’t departed entirely from his roots. But in recent years, he’s...  more
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released July 25, 2025 


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Continuance 06:20
 
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2.
 
What Am I Waiting For? 04:57
 
 
 
3.
 
All Said and Done 06:17
 
 
 
4.
 
The Big Room 03:33
 
 
 
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Radical 07:10
 
 
 
6.
 
I Fall in Love Too Easily 05:35
 
 
 
7.
 
You Already Know 06:17
 
 
 
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Prime Time 03:54 


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