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Zoot Sims: With Bucky Pizzarelli
BySims was a veteran of big bands during and after World War II, touring with bands including Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Stan Kenton and playing in smaller groups including with Gerry Mulligan. On this session, a gentler tone is evident in Sims' playing, which seems especially syntonic on the Legrand tune. Pizzarelli's seven-stringer serves as a delicately muscular complement, almost as a mirroring echo supporting Sims' rhythmic strength. That same mutual delight is palpable on "Mynah Blues," with a series of exchanges which are at once unhurried and endlessly inventive. The set ends with a chairs-on-the-tables-intimate barroom closer, "Willow Weep For Me," melodically mellow to the max.
Track Listing
What Is This Thing Called Love?; Tooz Blues; Not So Deep; Take Ten; Mynah Blooze; Watch What Happens; There Will Never Be Another You; Willow Weep For Me.
Personnel
Zoot Sims
saxophone, tenorZoot Sims: tenor saxophone; Bucky Pizzarelli: guitar.
Album information
Title: With Bucky Pizzarelli | Year Released: 2009 | Record Label: Classic Jazz Records
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