[SACD-R][OF] Zoot Sims – Zoot Sims and The Gershwin Brothers - 1975/2003 (Jazz, Bop, Cool, Mainstream Jazz)

 

Zoot Sims never made a bad album, but he did make a great number that were merely very good. This one, however, is excellent. Sims, Peterson, and Pass all solo beautifully, and the bass and drum team of Mraz and Tate are behind them every step of the way. The two standout tracks are ‘I Got Rhythm’, where Sims follows an explosive Peterson solo with full-throated honks and excursions into his beautiful upper register; and ‘Embraceable You’, when Zoot proves that only Webster, Getz, and Hawkins can challenge him for beauty of tone. That said, there isn’t a bad track on this CD, and it will give any Zoot fan — any jazz fan — a great deal of pleasure.
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, & for his longstanding small-group collaborations with fellow tenor man 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 & such boppers as Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray. His dynamism is evident on Zoot Sims & the Gershwin Brothers: the 10-song compilation, recorded in 1975, uses such jazz improvisation stalwarts as “The Man I Love,” “I Got Rhythm,” “Summertime,” & “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 & guitarist Joe Pass as sidemen here proved a blessing.
~Fred Goodman

Recorded in 1975 & 1 of Zoot’s finest CDs. His rich, warm tone is at the fore on every tune, whether it’s an up-tempo swinger like THE MAN I LOVE or I GOT RHYTHM or a slow ballad like HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON. All of these are familiar songs to Zoot, he’s probably played most a thousand times, but he is still able to make them sound fresh. Pianist Oscar Peterson can be overpowering at times, but on this album he restrains himself & plays tasty accompaniment (his solos are excellent, too). Joe Pass is on guitar & solos nicely on what I consider the highlight track, ‘S WONDERFUL. George Mraz (b) & Grady Tate (d) offer solid support throughout. This is straight ahead, solid mainstream jazz at its finest. Definitely worth checking out.

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