Zoot Sims - Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers
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Artist: Zoot SimsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Ojc
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Free Music Review: An all-star group at the peak of their powers
Hit: 5 Stars
The Gershwin brothers could have hoped for no greater tribute. Three of the grand masters of jazz - Zoot on tenor, Oscar Peterson on piano, and Joe Pass on guitar - backed up by no less than George Mraz on bass and Grady Tate on drums, gathered in a New York studio in 1975 to offer us 11 tracks of the Gershwins' most memorable tunes. The arrangements sound fresh and the performances are inspired.
There are many great highlights on this album, so I'll just mention a couple of them. The up-tempo swing version of "The Man I Love" is a very different interpretation than the one Zoot recorded (and received high praise for) almost two decades earlier, but it is equally satisfying. There are several great swingers in this session, but if you're looking for seduction songs, grab your significant other and slow-dance to "How Long Has This Been Going On," "I've Got a Crush on You," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Isn't It a Pity," and best of all, "Embraceable You," in which Zoot is at his most brilliant.
Dozens of Zoot Sims recordings have been released on CD, making it hard to choose among them. If you want your collection to have the best possible representation of this jazz legend in the fewest CDs, I recommend getting this one and "That Old Feeling," which includes two full albums recorded in 1956 (see my review).
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An energetic, exuberant player, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims is perhaps best known for his membership in the famous "four brothers" sax section of Woody Herman's late-forties Herd, and for his longstanding small-group collaborations with fellow tenorman Al Cohn. Yet neither of those pigeonholes do his abilities justice: Sims was a remarkably complete musician, comfortable playing everything from hard bop to swing to Dixieland. And though most clearly drawing his musical delineation from Lester Young, Sims was also capable of a raw, free-swinging style that hinted at the influence of the Texas tenor school and such boppers as Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. His dynamism is evident on Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers: the 10-song compilation, recorded in 1975, uses such jazz improvisation stalwarts as "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm," "Summertime," and "Embraceable You" to showcase his absolute command of the modern jazz vocabulary. If the record label, Norman Granz's Pablo, was overly reliant on a core group of technically breathtaking but somewhat predictable players, the presence of label stars pianist Oscar Peterson and guitarist Joe Pass as sidemen here proved a blessing. --Fred GoodmanBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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