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Zoot!

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Released
  
1957

Length
  
40:14

Producer
  
Orrin Keepnews

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
RiversideRLP 12-228

Recorded
  
December 13 & 18, 1956Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Zoot! (also released as Zoot Sims Quintet) is an album by American jazz saxophonist Zoot Sims featuring tracks recorded in 1956 for the Riverside label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with Scott Yanow calling it "a typically hard-swinging and melodic Zoot Sims date".

Track listing

All compositions by George Handy except as indicated

  1. "Why Cry?" - 5:54
  2. "Echoes of You" - 7:12
  3. "Swim, Jim" - 7:07
  4. "Here and Now" - 4:55
  5. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 4:30
  6. "Osmosis" (Osie Johnson) - 4:44
  7. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) - 6:01

Personnel

  • Zoot Sims - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Nick Travis - trumpet
  • George Handy - piano, arranger
  • Wilbur Ware - bass
  • Osie Johnson - drums

    • References

    Zoot! Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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