Zoot Sims: What's New - Jazz Reference (CD)

Zoot Sims (1925-1985)

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Label:: Dreyfus
Aufnahmejahr ca.:: 1949-54
UPC/EAN:: 3460503678828
Erscheinungstermin:: 4.11.2005

This charming man who, in his spare time, grew rose bushes and sampled good wine vintages, liked defining himself as a ‘cabaret musician’. John Haley Sims (1925-85), alias “Zoot”, was raised in a family of musicians and debuted on the drums and clarinet before switching to the tenor saxophone at the age of 13 and stepping up as a professional musician when 15 in 1941, when adult artists were being drafted into the army. He thus became acquainted with bands of a certain repute, those of Ken Baker, Bobby Sherwood, Sonny Dunham, Bob Astor (41-43) and Benny Goodman in 1944 before he, in turn, was called up until 1946. He was truly appreciated with Woody Herman (1947-49), in the famous saxophone section known as “the Four Brothers”. In the Woody Herman orchestra’s recording which bore this very title, he was beside Stan Getz and Herbie Stewart on the tenors and Serge Chaloff on the baritone. The most ‘brotherly’ of these brothers reunited in 1948 with Al Cohn replacing Stewart and Al soon became Zoot’s special interlocutor.

An innumerable quantity of discs were made in which they converse, and the first are featured in this album. These brothers and their siblings of the same generation – Jimmy Giuffre, the composer of FFoouurr BBrrootthheerrss, Allen Eager, Brew Moore, Bill Perkins, Phil Urso – or younger still – Richie Kamuca – claimed the heritage of Lester Young, a big rival and kind of opposite, as from the late thirties, of Coleman Hawkins, the champion of expressionism, power, sleekness and spirit. Lester and his disciples boasted a lighter and untimbred sound, and preferred the most relaxed form of expression possible. Each was cool in his own way. Zoot, however, stood apart in the group, being the most bluesy and swinging, the only true competitor of Stan Getz, who used to joke that the two of them would have made an absolutely unbeatable saxophonist. Here we find Zoot in his fine young years, as a superb soloist with Stan Kenton, and also free-lance, never lacking in ideas, with the complicity of a few top drummers: Kenny Clarke in Paris in 1950, Art Blakey in New York in 1951, Shelly Manne in Los Angeles in 1953. You only have the friends you deserve.

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T. Hintze in Stereo 2 / 06: "Eine großartige Auswahl aus der Zeit, bevor Sims für das Label Pablo Aufnahmen machte. Diese CD ist sogar für jemanden eine Entdeckung, der eine große Anzahl Platten von Zoot Sims hat."