Zoot!
Album by Zoot Sims
| Zoot! | ||||
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| Studio album by Zoot Sims | ||||
| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | December 13 & 18, 1956 Reeves Sound Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:14 | |||
| Label | Riverside RLP 12-228 | |||
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
| Zoot Sims chronology | ||||
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Zoot! (also released as Zoot Sims Quintet) is an album by American jazz saxophonist Zoot Sims featuring tracks recorded in 1956 for the Riverside label.[1]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with Scott Yanow calling it "a typically hard-swinging and melodic Zoot Sims date".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Florence Handy except as indicated
- "Why Cry?" - 5:54
- "Echoes of You" - 7:12
- "Swim, Jim" - 7:07
- "Here and Now" - 4:55
- "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 4:30
- "Osmosis" (Osie Johnson) - 4:44
- "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) - 6:01
Personnel
- Zoot Sims - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Nick Travis - trumpet
- George Handy - piano, arranger
- Wilbur Ware - bass
- Osie Johnson - drums
References
- ^ Riverside Records discography accessed August 30, 2012
- ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 30, 2012
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
leader
or
co-leader
- The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52)
- Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956)
- The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956)
- Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
- Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
- Zoot! (1956)
- Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957)
- Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958)
- Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959)
- Down Home (1960)
- Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964)
- Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- Waiting Game (1966)
- The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)
- Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974)
- Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975)
- The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975)
- Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975)
- Soprano Sax (1976)
- Hawthorne Nights (1976)
- If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles, 1977)
- For Lady Day (1978)
- Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles, 1979)
- The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson, 1979)
- Just Friends (and Harry Edison, 1980)
- Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
with
Al Cohn
- From A to...Z (1956)
- The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956)
- Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957)
- The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957)
- Al and Zoot (1957)
- Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959)
- SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959)
- Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960)
- You 'n' Me (1960)
- Either Way (1961)
- Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962)
- Body and Soul (1973)
- Motoring Along (1974)
Quincy
Jones
- This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956)
- The Birth of a Band! (1959)
- Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962)
- Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)
Gerry
Mulligan
- California Concerts (1954)
- Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955)
- Mainstream of Jazz (1956)
- The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957)
- The Concert Jazz Band (1960)
- Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
others
- Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
- Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968)
- Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956)
- Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54)
- Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
- The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973)
- Louis Bellson Quintet (1954)
- The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
- Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961)
- Chris Connor (1956)
- The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960)
- Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962)
- The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959)
- South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
- Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967)
- The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956)
- Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953)
- The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953)
- The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975)
- Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966)
- Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959)
- Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973)
- Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954)
- Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
- The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
- Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967)
- All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962)
- Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974)
- Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954)
- Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)
- Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952)
- Phoebe Snow (1974)
- Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958)
- The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
- Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
- The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953)
- At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)
