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If I'm Lucky (album)

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Released
  
1977

If I'm Lucky(1977)
  
For Lady Day(1978)

Release date
  
1977

Label
  
Pablo Records

Length
  
45:11

Artists
  
Zoot Sims, Jimmy Rowles

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
October 27 & 28, 1977 in NYC

If I'm Lucky(1977)
  
As Good as It Gets(1978)

Jazz albums
  
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin, Down Home, Basie & Zoot, Al and Zoot, Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims

If I'm Lucky is an album by saxophonist Zoot Sims with pianist Jimmy Rowles which was recorded in 1967 for the Pablo label.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and its review by Scott Yanow calls it an "enjoyable straight-ahead date". On All About Jazz Marc Barnett described the album as "Gorgeous improvisations on some beautiful yet rarely played songs". The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.

Track listing

  1. "(I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone" (Buddy Johnson) - 4:54
  2. "Legs" (Neal Hefti) - 6:31
  3. "If I'm Lucky" (Eddie DeLange, Josef Myrow) - 5:29
  4. "Shadow Waltz" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) - 5:34
  5. "You're My Everything" (Warren, Mort Dixon, Joe Young) - 5:26
  6. "It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter) - 6:54
  7. "Gypsy Sweetheart" (Mitchell Parish) - 4:18
  8. "I Hear a Rhapsody" (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) - 6:28

Personnel

  • Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone
  • Jimmy Rowles - piano
  • George Mraz - bass
  • Mousey Alexander - drums

    • Songs

    1(I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone4:55
    2Legs6:32
    3If I'm Lucky5:30

    References

    If I'm Lucky (album) Wikipedia
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