Al and Zoot
1957 studio album by Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Zoot Sims
Al and Zoot | ||||
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Studio album by Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Zoot Sims | ||||
Released | 1957 | |||
Recorded | March 27, 1957 New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 47:00 CD reissue with bonus track | |||
Label | Coral CRL 57171 | |||
Producer | Steve Backer | |||
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Zoot Sims chronology | ||||
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Al and Zoot is an album by the Al Cohn Quintet featuring Zoot Sims recorded in 1957 for the Coral label.[1][2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "The mid- to late '50s were a period of intense recording activity and this album is one of the underrated gems that was somewhat overlooked at the time".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Al Cohn except as indicated
- "It's a Wonderful World" (Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson) - 6:32
- "Brandy and Beer" - 3:49
- "Two Funky People" - 4:30
- "Chasing the Blues" - 6:12
- "Halley's Comet" - 4:10
- "You're a Lucky Guy" (Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn) - 3:39
- "The Wailing Boat" - 6:18
- "Just You, Just Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) - 5:33
- "Gone with the Wind" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 6:17 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
- Al Cohn - tenor saxophone
- Zoot Sims - tenor saxophone, clarinet on 3
- Mose Allison - piano
- Teddy Kotick - bass
- Nick Stabulas - drums
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
leader
or
co-leader
- The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52)
- Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956)
- The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956)
- Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
- Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
- Zoot! (1956)
- Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957)
- Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958)
- Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959)
- Down Home (1960)
- Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964)
- Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- Waiting Game (1966)
- The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)
- Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974)
- Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975)
- The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975)
- Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975)
- Soprano Sax (1976)
- Hawthorne Nights (1976)
- If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles, 1977)
- For Lady Day (1978)
- Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles, 1979)
- The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson, 1979)
- Just Friends (and Harry Edison, 1980)
- Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
with
Al Cohn
- From A to...Z (1956)
- The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956)
- Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957)
- The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957)
- Al and Zoot (1957)
- Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959)
- SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959)
- Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960)
- You 'n' Me (1960)
- Either Way (1961)
- Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962)
- Body and Soul (1973)
- Motoring Along (1974)
Quincy
Jones
- This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956)
- The Birth of a Band! (1959)
- Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962)
- Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)
Gerry
Mulligan
- California Concerts (1954)
- Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955)
- Mainstream of Jazz (1956)
- The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957)
- The Concert Jazz Band (1960)
- Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
others
- Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
- Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968)
- Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956)
- Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54)
- Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
- The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973)
- Louis Bellson Quintet (1954)
- The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
- Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961)
- Chris Connor (1956)
- The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960)
- Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962)
- The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959)
- South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
- Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967)
- The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956)
- Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953)
- The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953)
- The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975)
- Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966)
- Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959)
- Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973)
- Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954)
- Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
- The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
- Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967)
- All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962)
- Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974)
- Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954)
- Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)
- Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952)
- Phoebe Snow (1974)
- Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958)
- The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
- Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
- The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953)
- At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)