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| 1. | I Wish I Were Twins
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| 2. | Georgia on My Mind
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| 3. | Changes
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| 4. | The Touch of Your Lips
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| 5. | The Fish Horn
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| 6. | Come Closer to Me
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| 7. | You Go Your Way
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Jazz / Bop
Recorded: July 6, 1981
Jimmy Rowles, Frank Tate, Akira Tana
In the last years of his life, Zoot Sims formed a studio partnership with Jimmy Rowles that produced some of the most eloquent and timeless music of the era. Their approach was simple--get together with a felicitous rhythm section whenever Rowles had a break in his duties as Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist and record a slew of worthy (if often obscure) pop songs to which Sims could apply his unfailing swing and ever-deepening passion. Rowles, who assumed primary responsibility for repertoire, came up with such uncommon numbers as the title track, "Changes," and "You Go Your Way" for this volume of the series; while Sims, who is otherwise heard playing his more familiar tenor throughout, contributed his own "The Fish Horn" as a feature for soprano sax. The urge to speak old truths on out-of-the-way material drove both Sims and Rowles to create a body of music whose value grows only more obvious with the passage of time.
Zoot Sims
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: Oct 29, 1925 in Inglewood, CA
Died: Mar 23, 1985 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz
Throughout his career, Zoot Sims was famous for epitomizing the swinging musician, never playing an inappropriate phrase. He always sounded inspired, and although his style did not change much after the early 1950s, Zoot's enthusiasm and creativity never wavered.
Zoot's family was involved in vaudeville, and he played drums and clarinet as a youth. His older brother Ray Sims developed into a fine trombonist who sounded like Bill Harris. At age 13, Sims switched permanently to the tenor, and his initial inspiration was Lester Young, although he soon developed his own cool-toned sound. Sims was a professional by the age of 15, landing his first important job with Bobby Sherwood's Orchestra, and joined Benny Goodman's big band for the first time in 1943; he would be one of BG's favorite tenormen for the next 30 years. He recorded with Joe Bushkin in 1944, and even at that early stage, his style was largely set.
After a period in the Army, Sims was with Goodman from 1946-47. He gained his initial fame as one of Woody Herman's "Four Brothers" during his time with the Second Herd (1947-49). Zoot had brief stints with Buddy Rich's short-lived big band, Artie Shaw, Goodman (1950), Chubby Jackson and Elliot Lawrence. He toured and recorded with Stan Kenton (1953) and Gerry Mulligan (1954-56). Sims was also a star soloist with Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band of the early 1960s and visited the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman in 1962. A freelancer throughout most of his career, Sims often led his own combos or co-led bands with his friend Al Cohn; the two tenors had very similar sounds and styles. Zoot started doubling on soprano quite effectively in the 1970s. Through the years, he appeared in countless situations, and always seemed to come out ahead. Fortunately, Zoot Sims recorded frequently, leading sessions for Prestige, Metronome, Vogue, Dawn, Storyville, Argo, ABC-Paramount, Riverside, United Artists, Pacific Jazz, Bethlehem, Colpix, Impulse, Groove Merchant, Famous Door, Choice, Sonet, and a wonderful series for Pablo.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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