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Article: Getting Into Jazz

If I'm Lucky

by Mark Barnett
March 28, 2016

Getting Started If you're new to jazz, go to our Getting Into Jazz primer for some hints on how to listen. CD Capsule Gorgeous improvisations on some beautiful yet rarely played songs by tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims and pianist Jimmy Rowles. Background Zoot Sims was one ...

News: Performance / Tour

Saxophonist's "A Team" delivers a night filled with musical gems

March 16, 2016

A touring jazz saxophonist's lot often means solitary travel to a distant city or country- and working with a local or regional rhythm section with whom they may or may not be familiar. The fine swing tenor Harry Allen had none of that uncertainty for his March 14 appearance in the Charlotte County Jazz Society's concert ...

News: Performance / Tour

Channeling two jazz tenor titans

January 22, 2016

Tenor saxophonists Lew Del Gatto and Jeff Rupert channeled the spirit and hard-driving swing of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims in their Friday matinee concert at the Venice (FL) Art Center. The South County Jazz Club event teamed the two tenors with pianist Richard Drexler, bassist Don Mopsick and drummer Tony Vigilante. All of the music ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Zoot Sims

October 29, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today! John Haley “Zoot" Sims was born in Inglewood, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an early age. His father was a vaudeville hoofer, and Sims prided himself on remembering many of the steps his father taught him. ...

News: Video / DVD

CT, Zoot And Friends In New Orleans, 1969

August 22, 2015

As mentioned in Rifftides from time to time, many who attended or played in the original New Orleans Jazz Festival remember it as an example of what a jazz festival can be. The 1968 and 1969 editions of JazzFest were intimate compared with what later became the Jazz And Heritage Festival, a massive Crescent City party ...

Article: From Far and Wide

The Word is Beat: Jazz, Poetry & the Beat Generation

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 12, 2015

It is the aspiration of much literature that it wants to change the way we look at the world, but few authors and poets have been as influential as the group of writers labeled the Beat Generation. They saw a lot that they did not like about American society in the fifties when they came of ...

News: Recording

Al + Zoot: Happy Over Hoagy

August 10, 2015

One of the prettiest and least known recordings by Zoot Sims and Al Cohn is their tribute to songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. Recorded in 1957, the album was released on the Jass Twelve label only in the 1980s. I have no idea why it wasn't recorded for a mainstream label then or why its released was delayed ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Sonorama: New Treasures from the Past

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 30, 2015

To find a forgotten record is often part of the pleasure and path of the dedicated record collector. Looking for the right record becomes a journey where flea markets and other strange places are examined, but it is also about having the right connections. Ekkehart Fleischhammer is not only an expert in finding the recorded treasures ...

News: Video / DVD

More From Zoot's Tribute: '86

May 20, 2015

Yesterday I posted on a video that Bret Primack sent along from a memorial concert for Zoot Sims in 1986. Today, Bret sent along another, this time featuring Ira Gitler announcing Al Cohn and Friends, with saxophonists Al Cohn, Turk Mauro, Lew Tabackin, Al Klink and Bob Wilbur, and pianist Benny Aranov, bassist Bill Crow and ...

News: Video / DVD

Zoot's Memorial Concert, 1986

May 19, 2015

Tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims died in March 1985. A year later, a memorial concert was held in his honor. Bret Primack sent along the following video, featuring Gerry Mulligan (bs), Roger Kellaway (p), Bill Crow (b) and Bobby Rosengarden (d). The date of the concert and location aren't immediately known. The video is courtesy of Turk ...