In February 1957, “Blue Note” label released “Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims”, the seventh Jutta Hipp album. It was recorded in July 1956, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, New Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.
Personnel:
Jutta Hipp – piano
Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
Jerry Lloyd – trumpet
Ahmed Abdul-Malik – bass
Ed Thigpen – drums
Rudy Van Gelder – recording
Reid Miles – design
Leonard Feather – liner notes
Track listing:
Just Blues – Zoot Sims
Violets for Your Furs – Matt Dennis, Tom Adair
Down Home – Jerry Lloyd
Almost Like Being in Love – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Wee Dot – J. J. Johnson, Leo Parker
Too Close for Comfort – George David Weiss, Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener
On August 10, 1964, “Workshop Jazz” label released “Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charles Mingus”, the ninth Pepper Adams album. It was recorded in September 1963, in New York City.
On April 14, 1954, “Columbia” label released “Chet Baker & Strings”, album by Chet Baker. It was recorded December 1953 – February 1954, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Richard Bock.
Personnel:
Chet Baker – trumpet
Bud Shank – alto saxophone, flute
Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
Russ Freeman – piano
Joe Mondragon – bass
Shelly Manne – drums
Sam Cytron, Jack Gasselin, George Kast, Eudice Shapiro, Paul Shure, Felix Slatkin – violin
Lou Kievman, Paul Robyn – viola
Victor Gottlieb – cello
Jack Montrose, Johnny Mandel, Marty Paich, Shorty Rogers – arrangements
Track listing:
You Don’t Know What Love Is – Don Raye, Gene de Paul
I’m Thru With Love – Fud Livingston, Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck
Love Walked In – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
You Better Go Now – Irvin Graham, Bickley Reichner
I Married An Angel – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
Love – Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane
I Love You – Cole Porter
What a Diff’rence a Day Made – María Grever, Stanley Adams
In March 1959, “Mercury” label released “Vaughan and Violins”, the eleventh Sarah Vaughan album. It was recorded in July 1958, and was produced by Jack Tracy.
Personnel:
Sarah Vaughan – vocals
Marcel Hrasko – alto saxophone
Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
Jo Hrasko – baritone saxophone
William Boucya – baritone saxophone
Pierre Culaz – guitar
Ronnell Bright – piano
Richard Davis – bass
Pierre Michelot – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums
Michel Hausser – vibraphone
Quincy Jones – arrangements, conductor
Track listing:
Please Be Kind – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
The Midnight Sun Will Never Set – Dorcas Cochran, Quincy Jones, Henri Salvador
Live for Love – Paul Misraki, Carl Sigman
Misty – Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner
I’m Lost – Otis René
Love Me – John Lehmann, John Lewis
That’s All – Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes
Day by Day – Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston
Gone with the Wind – Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel
In February 1957, “ABC-Paramount” label released “This Is How I Feel About Jazz”, the second Quincy Jones album. It was recorded September 1956 – January 1957, at “Ballone Recording Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Creed Taylor.
Personnel:
Quincy Jones – conductor, arrangements
Gene Quill – alto saxophone
Phil Woods – alto saxophone
Zoot Sims, Lucky Thompson – tenor saxophone
Lucky Thompson, Bunny Bardach – tenor saxophone
Bill Perkins, Buddy Collette, Walter Benton – tenor saxophone
Pepper Adams – baritone sax
Jack Nimitz – baritone sax
Art Farmer, Bernie Glow, Ernie Royal, Joe Wilder – trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Frank Rehak – trombone
In December 1966, “Impulse!” label released “Waiting Game”, the 44th Zoot Sims album. It was recorded in November 1966, in London, and was produced by Bob Thiele and Gary McFarland.
Personnel:
Zoot Sims – vocals, tenor saxophone
David Snell – harp
Gary McFarland – arranger
Kenny Napper, Jack Parnell – conductor
Unknown Orchestra
Robert Flynn – design
Arthur Halpern – cover photography
Nat Hentoff – liner notes
Track listing:
All tracks by Gary McFarland except where noted.
Old Folks – Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison
I Wish I Knew – Mack Gordon
Once We Loved
It’s a Blue World – George Forrest, Robert Wright
September Song – Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson
Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg
Stella by Starlight – Victor Young, Ned Washington
One I Could Have Loved
You Go to My Head – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
In December 1959, “United Artists” label released “The Aztec Suite”, the twelve Art Farmer album. It was recorded in November 1959, at “Webster Hall” in New York City, and was produced by Jack Lewis.
In December 1956, “Riverside” label released “Trigger Happy!” the only Trigger Alpert album. It was recorded October – November 1956, at “Reeves Sound Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Orrin Keepnews.
Personnel:
Trigger Alpert – bass
Zoot Sims – alto and tenor saxophone
Al Cohn – tenor and baritone saxophone
Joe Wilder – trumpet
Urbie Green – trombone
Tony Scott – clarinet, tenor saxophone, arrangements
Ed Shaughnessy – drums
Dick Hyman, Marty Paich – arrangements
Jack Higgins – recording
Track listing:
Treat Me Rough – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Looking at You – Cole Porter
Love Me Tomorrow (But Leave Me Alone Today) – Vernon Duke, John La Touche
Trigger Happy – Tony Scott
Tranquilizer – Dick Hyman
I Like the Likes of You – Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg
I Wish I Were in Love Again – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
I Don’t Want to Be Alone Again – Johnny Mercer, Jimmie Smith
Trigger Fantasy – Trigger Alpert
Where’s That Rainbow? – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
In December 1955, “EmArcy” label released “Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet”, the tenth Gerry Mulligan album. It was recorded September – October 1955, in New York City.
Personnel:
Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone
Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
Jon Eardley – trumpet
Bob Brookmeyer – valve trombone, piano
Peck Morrison – bass
Dave Bailey – drums
Track listing:
All tracks by Gerry Mulligan except where noted.
Mud Bug – Jerry Lloyd
Sweet and Lovely – Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias, Jules LeMare
Apple Core
Nights on the Turntable
Broadway – Billy Byrd, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode
Everything Happens to Me – Matt Dennis, Tom Adair
The Lady Is a Tramp – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Bernie’s Tune – Bernie Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
In November 1968, “Verve” label released “The Sound of Feeling” (Leonard Feather Presents the Sound of Feeling and The Sound of Oliver Nelson), the 19th Oliver Nelson album.It was recorded in November 1967, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs and in Los Angeles, and was produced by Creed Taylor and Jesse Kaye.
Personnel:
The Sound of Feeling(tracks 1-5)
Oliver Nelson – soprano saxophone, arrangements, conductor
Alyce Andrece, Rhae Andrece – vocals
Gary David – vocals, piano, marxophone, arranger
Chuck Domanico, Ray Neapolitan – bass
Dick Wilson – drums
The Oliver Nelson Orchestra (tracks 6-9)
Oliver Nelson – arranger, conductor
Al Dailey, Hank Jones – piano
Eric Gale – guitar
Ron Carter – bass
Grady Tate – drums
Phil Kraus, Bobby Rosengarden – mallets, additional percussion
Jerome Richardson – soprano saxophone
Jerry Dodgion, Phil Woods – clarinets, alto saxophones
Jerome Richardson, Zoot Sims – tenor saxophones
Danny Bank – baritone saxophone
Burt Collins, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Joe Wilder, Snooky Young, Nat Adderley – trumpet, flugelhorn
Nat Adderley – cornet
Jimmy Cleveland, J. J. Johnson – additional trombones
Bob Brookmeyer – valve trombone
Tony Studd – bass trombone
Jerry Dodgion, Jerome Richardson – flutes
Rudy Van Gelder – recording
Val Valentin – director of engineering
Dave Wiechman – engineer
Dick Smith – art direction
Fred Seligo – photography
Leonard Feather – liner notes
Track listing:
My Favorite Things – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
Waltz Without Words – Gary David
Who Knows What Love Is? – Gary David
Phrases – Alyce Andrece, Rhae Andrece
Circe Revisited – Gary David, Bob Fylling
Ricardo’s Dilemma – Roy Ayers
Patterns for Orchestra – Oliver Nelson
The Sidewalks of New York – Charles B. Lawlor, James W. Blake
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