Results for "Zoot Sims"

Los Angeles 1959

By Zoot Sims

Label: Zoot
Released: 2010

World Needs Now & Doodle-Oodle

Featuring the music of Zoot Sims
Duration: 8:46
December 26, 2010

To clarify, 'Cool of the Evening' is the name of the programme that this came from. The numbers played are What the World Needs Now & Doodle-Oodle.

Jazz Musician of the Day: Zoot Sims

October 29, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today! Zoot SimsJohn Haley “Zoot" Sims, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and soprano saxophonist. He was born in Inglewood, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an early age... more Website ...

Take Five With Andy Farber

by AAJ Staff
October 25, 2010

Meet Andy Farber:Andy Farber is an award-winning jazz composer, arranger and saxophonist and has spent years performing with the likes of Jon Hendricks and Wynton Marsalis. Since 1994, Farber has been part of the Jazz @ Lincoln Center stable of writers and performers. Through J@LC, Farber has toured with the J@LC ...

Guitarist Gabor Gado: Two Views from Budapest

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
October 10, 2010

Herewith two records released at about the same time, on the same label (Hungary's Budapest Music Center), both prominently featuring Hungarian guitarist Gábor Gadó. If, however, it's pleasing to play the discs side by side--and it really is--it's as much because of the two records' differences as their similarities.Budapest Concerts is a concert recording ...

These Are a Few of My Favorite....Charts

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2010

Whenever the topic of desert islands arises among jazz fans, the focus is invariably on which albums (discs) one would choose to cram into a suitcase if one were ever stranded on an otherwise barren island. While the consideration of particular arrangements seldom governs the debate, I really think it should. After all, few albums, however ...

Jazzed Media to produce Woody Herman documentary

August 25, 2010

Jazzed Media, a jazz record label and film production company, has started production of a documentary film on big band jazz legend Woody Herman titled Blue Flame. This is the fourth jazz documentary from filmmaker Graham Carter, owner of Jazzed Media. Woody Herman was one of the most famous big band leaders from the 1940's swing ...

Singin' and Swingin' With Annie Ross: an 80th-Birthday Tribute

July 25, 2010

Christopher Lehman: Popjazzic

by Raul d'Gama Rose
May 4, 2010

On the face of it, many would find the title of New York City-based trumpeter Christopher Lehman's Popjazzic somewhat ludicrous. But, then, isn't the title “Latin jazz" somewhat ludicrous too? After all, that form of jazz has everything to do with Africa, Spain and Portugal, America and the indigenous peoples of the countries of South America, ...

Joe Corsello: Strong Second Act

by David A. Orthmann
April 19, 2010

In the notes to an unfinished novel, the celebrated 20th Century author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “there are no second acts in American lives." The vicissitudes of the lives of many jazz musicians, some of whom drop out of sight for years or even decades, are exceptions to Fitzgerald's often quoted dictum.The first act ...