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John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 - March 23, 1985) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 tenor saxophonist and soprano saxophonist.

He was born in Inglewood
Inglewood, California

Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles, California. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. Growing up in a vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
 family, Sims learned to play both drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
 and clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 at an early age. His father was a vaudeville hoofer
Tap dance technique

Tap dance technique makes frequent use of syncopation. Tap dance choreographies typically start on the eighth Beat , or between the eighth and the first count....
, and Sims prided himself on remembering many of the steps his father taught him.

Following in the footsteps of Lester Young
Lester Young

Lester Willis Young , nicknamed 'Prez', was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He was also known to play the trumpet, violin, and drums....
, Sims developed into an innovative tenor saxophonist.






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John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 - March 23, 1985) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 tenor saxophonist and soprano saxophonist.

He was born in Inglewood
Inglewood, California

Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles, California. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. Growing up in a vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
 family, Sims learned to play both drums
Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
 and clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
 at an early age. His father was a vaudeville hoofer
Tap dance technique

Tap dance technique makes frequent use of syncopation. Tap dance choreographies typically start on the eighth Beat , or between the eighth and the first count....
, and Sims prided himself on remembering many of the steps his father taught him.

Following in the footsteps of Lester Young
Lester Young

Lester Willis Young , nicknamed 'Prez', was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He was also known to play the trumpet, violin, and drums....
, Sims developed into an innovative tenor saxophonist. Throughout his career, he played with renowned bands, including Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman

Benjamin David Goodman, was an United States jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing ", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
, Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an United States jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz clarinetists of his time....
, Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb Kenton was a pianist who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial United States jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
, and Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an United States Jazz drumming, bandleader and former Marine. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, and speed....
. Sims was also one of Woody Herman
Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman , better known as Woody Herman, was an United States jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band band leader....
's "Four Brothers", and he was known among his peers as one of the strongest swingers in the field. He frequently led his own combos and sometimes toured with his friend Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
's sextet, and later with Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band.

In the 1950s and '60s, Sims had a long, successful partnership as co-leader of a quintet with Al Cohn
Al Cohn

Al Cohn was an United States jazz saxophonist and arranger/composer....
, which recorded under the name "Al and Zoot". That group was a favorite at the New York club "The Half Note." Always fond of the higher register of the tenor sax, Zoot also liked to play alto and late in his career added the soprano saxophone
Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone was invented in 1840 and is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument. The soprano is the second in size of the saxophone family which consists, as generally accepted, of the sopranino saxophone, soprano, Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, and contrabass saxophone....
 to his performances, while recording a series of albums for the Pablo Records
Pablo Records

Pablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1973 in music, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records.Pablo initially featured recordings by acts that he managed: Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass....
 label of impresario Norman Granz
Norman Granz

Norman Granz was an American jazz music impresario and producer. Born in Los Angeles, son of Jewish immigrants from Tiraspol, Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz, especially from about 1947 to 1960....
. Zoot also played on some of Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and Painting. Alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation....
's recordings.

Sims acquired the nickname — Zoot — early in his career while he was in the Kenny Baker band in California. The name was later appropriated for a sax-playing Muppet.

Zoot Sims died in New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 on March 23, 1985.

Discography (partial)

  • Stan Getz
    Stan Getz

    Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
    , Al Cohn
    Al Cohn

    Al Cohn was an United States jazz saxophonist and arranger/composer....
    , Zoot Sims
    Zoot Sims

    John Haley "Zoot" Sims was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and soprano saxophonist.He was born in Inglewood, California, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both Drum kit and clarinet at an early age....
     The Brothers (1949) Prestige Records
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    .
  • Zoot (1956) with Johnny Williams, Nick Travis
    Nick Travis

    Nick Travis was an American jazz trumpeter.Travis started playing professionally at age 15, playing in the early 1940s with Johnny McGhee, Vido Musso , Mitch Ayres, and Woody Herman ....
     (trumpet), Gus Johnson
    Gus Johnson (jazz musician)

    Gus Johnson was the drummer in various jazz band for many years. In the 1960s he played for saxophone Gerry Mulligan and accompanied singer Ella Fitzgerald in her 1960 Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife....
     and Nabil Totah. Compositions by George Handy
    George Handy

    George Handy was a jazz music arranger, composer and pianist whose musical beginnings were fostered under the tutelage of pianist Aaron Copland....
    .
  • Tenor Conclave (1956) with Hank Mobley
    Hank Mobley

    Henry Mobley was an United States hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz....
    , Al Cohn, John Coltrane
    John Coltrane

    John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
    , Red Garland
    Red Garland

    William "Red" Garland was an United States hard bop jazz pianist whose block chord style, in part originated by Milt Buckner, influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom....
    , Paul Chambers
    Paul Chambers

    Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was one of the most influential jazz double basss of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, int...
     and Art Taylor
    Art Taylor

    Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an United States jazz drummer of the hard bop school....
  • Goes To Jazzville (1956) with Totah, Williams, Bill Anthony, Jerome Lloyd, and Gus Johnson.
  • Zoot Sims and The Joe Castro
    Joe Castro

    Joe Castro is an American Film director whose movies are Budget, or B movies.Castro is mainly bent on Splatter film flicks, Horror film, and twisted films....
     Trio Live at Falcon Lair (1956)
That Old Feeling is a double-issue CD of two 1956 albums;
    • includes "Bohemia After Dark" Sims' first recorded alto solo.
and
    • Zoot Sims plays Alto, Tenor, and Baritone
  • Zoot Sims/Al Cohn - Hoagy Carmichael Sessions and More (1957) recorded in New York, Sims plays tenor and Cohn, baritone with Nick Travis
    Nick Travis

    Nick Travis was an American jazz trumpeter.Travis started playing professionally at age 15, playing in the early 1940s with Johnny McGhee, Vido Musso , Mitch Ayres, and Woody Herman ....
    , trombonist Jimmy Cleveland
    Jimmy Cleveland

    Jimmy Cleveland was an United States jazz trombone virtuoso born in Wartrace, Tennessee.Cleveland worked with many well-known jazz musicians, including Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Quincy Jones, Lucky Thompson, Gigi Gryce, Oscar Peterson, Oscar Pettiford and James Brown....
    , pianist Elliot Lawrence
    Elliot Lawrence

    Elliot Lawrence is an American jazz pianist and bandleader.Son of the broadcaster Stan Lee Broza, Lawrence led his first dance band at age 20, but he played swing jazz at the time its heyday was coming to a close....
    , bassist Milt Hinton
    Milt Hinton

    Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
    , and drummer Osie Johnson
    Osie Johnson

    James "Osie" Johnson was a jazz drummer.He first worked with Sabby Lewis and then, after service in the United States Navy freelanced for a time in Chicago....
    . Arrangements by Bill Elton.
  • Together Again! (1957) with Al Cohn, Herbie Steward
    Herbie Steward

    Herbie Steward, b. Herbert Steward, May 7, 1926, Los Angeles, is an United States jazz saxophone, best known for being the tenor saxophone player in Four Brothers , part of Woody Herman's Second Herd, a big band....
    , Serge Chaloff
    Serge Chaloff

    Serge Chaloff was an United States jazz baritone saxophone.The son of noted Boston piano teachers, Margaret Chaloff and Julius Chaloff, he was one of the few major jazz performers on his instrument....
    , Elliot Lawrence
    Elliot Lawrence

    Elliot Lawrence is an American jazz pianist and bandleader.Son of the broadcaster Stan Lee Broza, Lawrence led his first dance band at age 20, but he played swing jazz at the time its heyday was coming to a close....
    , Burgher Jones and Don Lamond
    Don Lamond

    Don Lamond was an United States jazz drumming.Lamond attended the Peabody Conservatory in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, and played with Sonny Dunham and Boyd Raeburn at the outset of his career....
  • A Night at the Half Note (1959) with Al Cohn, Mose Allison
    Mose Allison

    Mose John Allison, Jr. is an United States Jazz piano and singer.Early lifeHe was born in Tallahatchie County, in the Mississippi Delta....
    , Paul Motian
    Paul Motian

    Stephen Paul Motian , is an United States Jazz drumming, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.First coming to prominence in the late '50s with the pioneering trio of pianist Bill Evans, Motian has since worked in an array of contexts, and has led a number of groups....
    , Nabil Totah, and Phil Woods
    Phil Woods

    Philip Wells Woods is an United States jazz bebop Alto saxophone, clarinetist, bandleader and composer....
  • Either Way (1959-60) with Cecil Colier, Bill Crow, Gus Johnson , and Mose Allison.
The double-CD Al Cohn
Al Cohn

Al Cohn was an United States jazz saxophonist and arranger/composer....
 with Zoot Sims Complete Original Quintet/Sextet Studio Recordings contains:
    • their first quintet/sextet collaboration from 1952
    • From A To Z (1956),
    • Al And Zoot (1957)
    • You 'N' Me (1960) with Allison, Major Holley
      Major Holley

      Major Holley was an American jazz upright bassist.Holley played violin and tuba when young and started playing bass while serving in the U.S....
      , and Osie Johnson. Cohn and Sims play clarinet on "Angel Eyes" and tenor on most tracks.
  • Down home (1960) with Dave McKenna
    Dave McKenna

    Dave McKenna was a jazz pianist. He was known for his "three-handed swing", and was the leading proponent of solo piano style.Biography...
    , George Tucker
    George Tucker

    George Tucker , was born in Bermuda, and educated at College of William & Mary, where he studied law under St. George Tucker. After practicing law in Richmond, Virginia he moved to Lynchburg, Virginia....
    , and Dannie Richmond
    Dannie Richmond

    Dannie Richmond was an United States drummer who was best known among jazz fans for his work with Charles Mingus, and among pop music fans for his work with Joe Cocker, Elton John and Mark-Almond....
  • At the Half Note Again (1965) with Cohn, pianist Roger Kellaway
    Roger Kellaway

    Roger Kellaway is an United States composer, arranger, and pianist. Born in Waban, Massachusetts, he is an alumnus of the New England Conservatory....
    , bassist Bill Crow
    Bill Crow

    Bill Crow is a jazz Double bass and author.Crow has played with bands led by Mike Riley, John Benson Brooks, Teddy Charles, Stan Getz, Al Haig, Claude Thornhill, Terry Gibbs, Jerry Wald, Marian McPartland, Jimmy McPartland, Gerry Mulligan, Al Cohn & Zoot Sims, Bob Brookmeyer & Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon, Walter...
    , drummer Mel Lewis
    Mel Lewis

    Mel Lewis was a drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents. His birth name was Melvin Sokoloff....
    . On some tracks there is a third tenor player Richie Kamuca
    Richie Kamuca

    Richie Kamuca , was an United States jazz Tenor saxophone born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
     and a different rhythm section (pianist Dave Frishberg
    Dave Frishberg

    Dave Frishberg is an United States jazz pianist, vocalist and composer born David Frishberg in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Frishberg first became known for his work with Ben Webster, Gene Krupa, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims....
    , bassist Tommy Potter
    Tommy Potter

    Tommy Potter, Philadelphia, PA on September 21, 1918 - died March 1, 1988, was a jazz double bass player.Potter is known for having been a member of Charlie Parker's "classic quintet", with Miles Davis, between 1947 & 1950; he had first played with Parker in 1944, in Billy Eckstine's band with Dizzy Gillespie, Lucky Thompson and Art Blakey...
     and Lewis.
  • Bossa Nova Session (1962) with Jimm Hall
  • Al Cohn
    Al Cohn

    Al Cohn was an United States jazz saxophonist and arranger/composer....
     & Zoot Sims - Easy As Pie - live at the Left Bank Jazz Society
    Left Bank Jazz Society

    The Left Bank Jazz Society is a Baltimore, Maryland-based organization that promotes Baltimore jazz. It formed in 1965, hosting a series of concerts featuring nationally acclaimed performers like John Coltrane and Duke Ellington....
     night at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, 1968. Rhythm section is Dave Frishberg
    Dave Frishberg

    Dave Frishberg is an United States jazz pianist, vocalist and composer born David Frishberg in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Frishberg first became known for his work with Ben Webster, Gene Krupa, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims....
    , Victor Sproles
    Victor Sproles

    Victor Sproles is a US jazz bassist.Sproles worked in the 1950s with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan and appears on the Sun Ra recordings Sound Sun Pleasure!, Super-Sonic Jazz and Sound of Joy....
     on bass and Donald McDonald on drums.
  • Zoot Suite (1973) - live with Jimmy Rowles
    Jimmy Rowles

    Jimmy Rowles was an United States jazz pianist who was best known as an accompaniment. He also released a number of albums under his own name, and explored various idioms including swing music and cool jazz....
    , George Mraz
    George Mraz

    George Mraz is a jazz double bass and alto saxophone. He attended the Berklee College of Music in 1970. He can be heard on Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko and Bossas & Ballads - The Lost Sessions....
    (bass) and Mousey Alexander
    Mousey Alexander

    Elmer "Mousey" Alexander was an American jazz drummer.Born in Gary, Indiana, Alexander studied at the Ray Knapp School in Chicago. He began to work with Jimmy McPartland there, soon after playing in the band of his wife, Marian McPartland....
    .
  • Joe Venuti/Zoot Sims - Joe & Zoot & More (1973) w Spencer Clark
    Spencer Clark

    Spencer Clark was a racecar driver in the United States. He raced in short tracks in his home state of Nevada and was named a Young Lions National in 2001....
     on bass saxophone
    Bass saxophone

    The bass saxophone is the second largest existing member of the saxophone family . It is similar in design to a baritone saxophone, but it is larger, with a longer loop near the mouthpiece....
    , Milt Hinton
    Milt Hinton

    Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
     and Bucky Pizzarelli
    Bucky Pizzarelli

    John Paul 'Bucky' Pizzarelli is an United States classical jazz guitarist and banjoist, perhaps most notable for his work with jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli, his son....
    .
  • Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (1975) with pianist Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
    , guitarist Joe Pass
    Joe Pass

    Joe Pass January 13, 1929 ? May 23, 1994) was a jazz guitarist. His extensive use of walking basslines, melodic counterpoint during improvisation, and use of a chord-melody style of play opened up new possibilities for jazz guitar and had a profound influence on future guitarists....
    , George Mraz and Grady Tate
    Grady Tate

    Grady Tate, , is a hard bop and soul-jazz drummer and singer.He has played with Lena Horne, Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, Chris Connor, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Cal Tjader, Peggy Lee, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Tom Rapp, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Stanley Turrentine, Charles Earland, Quincy Jones,...
     (drums).
  • Count Basie
    Count Basie

    William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
    /Zoot Sims Basie and Zoot (1975) quartet w bassist John Heard and drummer Louie Bellson
    Louie Bellson

    Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni , better known by the stage name Louie Bellson , was an Italian-American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the Double bass drumming....
    . A bluesy set.
  • Soprano Sax (1976) with Ray Bryant
    Ray Bryant

    Ray Bryant is a United States Jazz piano and composer.Ray Bryant began playing the piano at the age of six, also performing on bass in junior High School....
    , George Mraz, and Grady Tate
The album Somebody Loves Me is a re-issue of tracks cut in the mid-70s for the Groove Merchant label, featuring Sims on tenor and soprano with Bucky Pizzarelli
Bucky Pizzarelli

John Paul 'Bucky' Pizzarelli is an United States classical jazz guitarist and banjoist, perhaps most notable for his work with jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli, his son....
 (guitar), Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton

Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
 (bass), and Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an United States Jazz drumming, bandleader and former Marine. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, and speed....
 (drums). Some of this was released at the time as the album Nirvana.
  • If I'm Lucky (1977) with pianist Jimmy Rowles
    Jimmy Rowles

    Jimmy Rowles was an United States jazz pianist who was best known as an accompaniment. He also released a number of albums under his own name, and explored various idioms including swing music and cool jazz....
    , George Mraz and Mousey Alexander
    Mousey Alexander

    Elmer "Mousey" Alexander was an American jazz drummer.Born in Gary, Indiana, Alexander studied at the Ray Knapp School in Chicago. He began to work with Jimmy McPartland there, soon after playing in the band of his wife, Marian McPartland....
    . Released on Norman Granz
    Norman Granz

    Norman Granz was an American jazz music impresario and producer. Born in Los Angeles, son of Jewish immigrants from Tiraspol, Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz, especially from about 1947 to 1960....
    ' Pablo Records
    Pablo Records

    Pablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1973 in music, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records.Pablo initially featured recordings by acts that he managed: Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass....
    .
  • For Lady Day (1978) Sims, Rowles and Mraz, performing some of Billie Holiday
    Billie Holiday

    Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
    's favourite numbers. Jackie Williams on drums.
  • Zoot Sims and Sweets Edison
    Sweets Edison

    Harry "Sweets" Edison , was born in Columbus, Ohio. He spent his early childhood in Kentucky, where he was introduced to music by an uncle. After moving back to Columbus at the age of 12, the young Edison began playing the trumpet with local bands....
     - Just Friends (1978). Released on Norman Granz
    Norman Granz

    Norman Granz was an American jazz music impresario and producer. Born in Los Angeles, son of Jewish immigrants from Tiraspol, Granz was a fundamental figure in American jazz, especially from about 1947 to 1960....
    ' Pablo Records
    Pablo Records

    Pablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1973 in music, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records.Pablo initially featured recordings by acts that he managed: Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass....
    .
  • Zoot Sims in Copenhagen (1978)
  • Art Pepper
    Art Pepper

    Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an United States alto saxophonist....
    /Zoot Sims - Art 'n' Zoot (1981) - with bassist Ray Brown
    Ray Brown (musician)

    Raymond Matthews Brown was an United States jazz double bassist. He is considered by many one of the masters of his instrument, as he developed an almost perfect sense of timekeeping and had a hard swing feel to his lines....
     and guitarist Barney Kessell.
  • Zoot Sims with Joe Pass
    Joe Pass

    Joe Pass January 13, 1929 ? May 23, 1994) was a jazz guitarist. His extensive use of walking basslines, melodic counterpoint during improvisation, and use of a chord-melody style of play opened up new possibilities for jazz guitar and had a profound influence on future guitarists....
     - Blues For Two (1982)
  • Suddenly It's Spring - (1983) w Rowles, Mraz and Akira Tana.
  • Quietly There (1984) Zoot Sims plays Johnny Mandel
    Johnny Mandel

    Johnny Mandel is a Grammy Award-winning United States composer and arrangement of popular songs, film music and jazz.Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie , Frank Sinatra ...
     compositions with Mike Wofford
    Mike Wofford

    Mike Wofford is a jazz pianist born February 28 1938 in San Antonio, Texas, but raised in San Diego, California.He is best known as an accompanist to and music director for singers Sarah Vaughan , Ella Fitzgerald and others....
     piano, Chuck Berghofer bass, Nick Ceroli
    Nick Ceroli

    Nick Ceroli , was an American jazz drummer.Ceroli was born in Warren, Ohio. He did a tour of Central America and South America in 1963 with Ray Anthony, and that same year recorded with Jack Teagarden and played with Gerald Wilson at the Monterey Jazz Festival....
     drums, and Victor Feldman
    Victor Feldman

    Victor Stanley Feldman was a United Kingdom jazz musician.He caused a sensation as a musical prodigy when he was "discovered" at age 7. His family were all musical and his father founded the Feldman Swing Club in London in 1942 to showcase his talented son....
     percussion, his penultimate recording.


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