Al Cohn & Zoot Sims: Blue Hodge
Track
Blue Hodge
Group
Al Cohn & Zoot Sims
CD
Body And Soul (Pony Canyon Records [Japan] PCCY-30029)
Musicians:
Al Cohn (tenor sax), Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Jaki Byard (piano), George Duvivier (bass), Mel Lewis (drums).
Recorded: March 23, 1973
Rating: 92/100 (learn more)
Tenorists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims played together as members of Woody Herman’s famous Second Herd and later continued their association in quintets of their own. Although both men were, like many saxophonists of their generation, the musical descendants of Lester Young, they complemented each other with individually distinctive approaches. Gary McFarland’s slow blues, written for alto titan Johnny Hodges, displays both their similarities and their individual strengths. Sims demonstrates his unerring sense of swing while Cohn, also a composer, contributes beautifully constructed melodic lines.
Reviewer: David Franklin
Tags: 1970s jazz · tenor battles · tenor sax
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