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Zoot Sims and Oscar Peterson: The Man I Love (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

Here we have another Gershwin tune that has been recorded hundreds of times. But when a tune is that good and you hav...

Zoot Sims and Oscar Peterson: How Long Has This Been Going On (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

The melody of “How Long Has This Been Going On” is one of those tunes that’s so fine and memorable it keeps replaying...

Gerry Mulligan (featuring Zoot Sims): Come Rain or Come Shine (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Tenor sax ballads typically feature the lineup most conducive to intimacy, a single horn with rhythm section. Yet her...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Dave Frishberg: Zoot Walks In (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

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Jimmy Raney: Move It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 16, 09

After the first of two stints with Stan Getz in 1951-52, clean, crisp swing/bop guitarist Jimmy Raney recorded his fi...

Zoot Sims: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 02, 08

Zoot Sims started doubling on soprano sax in 1973, well into his 40s. Until then he was known as an excellent hard-sw...

Al Cohn & Zoot Sims: Blue Hodge (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Tenorists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims played together as members of Woody Herman’s famous Second Herd and later continued t...

Al Cohn & Zoot Sims: Lover Come Back to Me (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 27, 07

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Zoot Sims: Moonlight in Vermont (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 06, 09

Not many swing or bop saxophonists have put the soprano to good use—few if any during the '30s and '40s, when those s...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX

           Soprano Sax and Piano      Fab...

Bill Evans (with Zoot Sims): Funkallero (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 29, 08

This tune always brought out a different side of Bill Evans. Even Evans seemed to realize it. He would pull out "Fu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Zoot Sims: Does the Sun Really Shine on the Moon? (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

This is one of my favorite jazz-soloist-with-strings albums, despite certain flaws. The usually impeccable Sims plays...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND

Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...

Stan Kenton: You and the Night and the Music (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 20, 08

The influence of Bill Russo's teacher Lennie Tristano is reflected in this austere setting of the classic minor balla...

Tito Rodriguez: Perdido (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

The Tito Rodriguez band is not as well known as those of his compatriots Machito and Tito Puente, but cognoscent...

Gerry Mulligan: La plus que lente (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

During the mid-1950s, Gerry Mulligan expanded his famous pianoless quartet to a pianoless sextet, allowing a return t...

Artie Shaw: Aesop's Foibles (Minnesota) (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Artie Shaw was forever quitting the music business in disgust, only to return and repeat the cycle. In 1949 he was in...

Clifford Brown: Joy Spring (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Less than a month after the historic February 1954 A Night At Birdland session with Art Blakey, Brownie found himself...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Sims, Zoot (John Haley) posted in Encyclopedia November 21, 08

The name of Zoot Sims may be unfamiliar to some, but he earned his spot on the list of top tenor saxophonists the har...

Woody Herman: Four Brothers (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Long before Three Tenors meant an operatic trio of overweight males belching overblown arias in a stadium while the l...

Pizzarelli, Bucky (John Paul) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli's superior range of harmonic qualities has made him equally effective as a soloist as with...

Hinton, Milt (Milton John) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Bassist Milt Jackson advanced the role of the bassist in a jazz ensemble by performing with a keen rhythmic intellect...

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