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Album by Zoot Sims
Zoot!
Studio album by Zoot Sims
Released1957
RecordedDecember 13 & 18, 1956
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length40:14
LabelRiverside
RLP 12-228
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Zoot Sims chronology
Zoot Sims Plays Alto, Tenor and Baritone
(1956)
Zoot!
(1957)
Zoot Sims Plays 4 Altos
(1957)

Zoot! (also released as Zoot Sims Quintet) is an album by American jazz saxophonist Zoot Sims featuring tracks recorded in 1956 for the Riverside label.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with Scott Yanow calling it "a typically hard-swinging and melodic Zoot Sims date".

Track listing

All compositions by Florence Handy except as indicated

  1. "Why Cry?" - 5:54
  2. "Echoes of You" - 7:12
  3. "Swim, Jim" - 7:07
  4. "Here and Now" - 4:55
  5. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 4:30
  6. "Osmosis" (Osie Johnson) - 4:44
  7. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) - 6:01

Personnel

References

  1. Riverside Records discography accessed August 30, 2012
  2. ^ Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 30, 2012
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