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.Riverside Records discography accessed August 30, 2012
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with Scott Yanow calling it "a typically hard-swinging and melodic Zoot Sims date".Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 30, 2012
Track listing All compositions by Florence Handy except as indicated "Why Cry?" - 5:54 "Echoes of You" - 7:12 "Swim, Jim" - 7:07 "Here and Now" - 4:55 "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 4:30 "Osmosis" (Osie Johnson) - 4:44 "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) - 6:01
Personnel Zoot Sims - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone Nick Travis - trumpet George Handy - piano, arranger Wilbur Ware - bass Osie Johnson - drums
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