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Jazz Musician of the Day: Zoot Sims

October 29, 2008

All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY 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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims: Blues And Haikus

Read "Blues And Haikus" reviewed by Sid Smith

by Sid Smith
May 5, 2008

I discovered jazz and Jack Kerouac at roughly the same time in my teens back in the early 1970s, when his seminal novel On The Road (Viking, 1957) hooked me into the bohemian world of jazz clubs, intense friendships and the never ending highway under wide open skies described in its pages. It barely ...

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Folk Jazz U.S.A. / Alabama Concerto

By Cannonball Adderley

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Folk Jazz U.S.A.:; The New Saints; Venezuela; Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair; Betsy; Randall My Son; Turtle Dove; Shenandoah; Joe's Old Folks; Saro Jane; Scarlet Town; Wayfarin' Stranger; Darling Corey; Alabama Concerto:; First Movement; Themes: The Henry John Story / Green, Green Rocky Road / Job's Red Wagon; The Henry John Story (Return) / Green, Green Rocky Road (Return); Job's Red Wagon (Return); Second Movement; Themes: Trampin' / The Loop; Trampin' (Return) / The Loop (Return); Third Movement; Theme: Little John Shoes; Theme: Milord's Calling / Little John Shoes (Return) / Milord's Callin' (Return); Fourth Movement; Themes: Blues For Christmas / Rufus Playboy / Grandma's Coffin / Blues For Christmas (Return); Grandma's Coffin (Return) / Rufus Playboy (Return) / Grandma's Coffin (2nd Return);

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Cookin'

By Zoot Sims

Label: Zoot
Released: 2005

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Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers

By Zoot Sims

Label: Pablo Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Man I Love, How Long Has This Been Going On; Oh Lady, Be Good; I've Got A Crush On You, I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, 'S Wonderful, Someone To Watch Over Me, Isn't It A Pity, Summertime, Plus CD Bonus Track They Can't Take That Away From Me.

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Article: Extended Analysis

Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers

by C. Michael Bailey
July 2, 2005

Zoot Sims Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers Pablo/OJC 1975 The beauty of jazz is there are always older recordings to be discovered and rediscovered. Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers is one of these recordings. Long hailed as one of Sims's finest recordings, it was not until ...

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Live At Falcon Lair

By Zoot Sims

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: A Night in Tunisia; Pennies from Heaven; I

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Article: Album Review

Zoot Sims with the Joe Castro Trio: Live at Falcon Lair

Read "Live at Falcon Lair" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 23, 2004

This loose-limbed rendezvous sounds exactly as it was, an impromptu late-night jam session planned on the fly in someone’s apartment—in this case, however, no ordinary apartment but “The Playhouse,” a spacious second-story room above a garage and adjacent to the main house at Falcon Lair, the imposing Beverly Hills estate then owned by tobacco heiress Doris ...

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