Discography
Stan Getz, Al Cohn, The Brothers (1949) Prestige Records
Zoot (1956) with Johnny Williams, Nick Travis (trumpet), Gus Johnson and Nabil Totah. Compositions by George Handy
Tenor Conclave (1956) with Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor
Goes To Jazzville (1956) with Totah, Williams, Bill Anthony, Jerome Lloyd, and Gus Johnson
Zoot Sims and The Joe Castro Trio Live at Falcon Lair (1956)
That Old Feeling is a double-issue CD of two 1956 albums, one including "Bohemia After Dark", Sims' first recorded alto solo, and Zoot Sims plays Alto, Tenor, and Baritone
Zoot Sims/Al Cohn - Hoagy Carmichael Sessions and More (1957) recorded in New York, Sims plays tenor and Cohn, baritone with Nick Travis, trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, pianist Elliot Lawrence, bassist Milt Hinton, and drummer Osie Johnson. Arrangements by Bill Elton
Together Again! (1957) with Al Cohn, Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, Elliot Lawrence, Burgher Jones and Don Lamond
A Night at the Half Note (1959) with Al Cohn, Mose Allison, Paul Motian, Nabil Totah, and Phil Woods
Either Way (1959-60) with Cecil Colier, Bill Crow, Gus Johnson, and Mose Allison
The double-CD Al Cohn with Zoot Sims Complete Original Quintet/Sextet Studio Recordings contains:
their first quintet/sextet collaboration from 1952
From A To Z (1956)
Al And Zoot (1957)
You 'N' Me (1960) with Allison, Major Holley, and Osie Johnson. Cohn and Sims play clarinet on "Angel Eyes" and tenor on most tracks
Down Home (1960) with Dave McKenna, George Tucker, and Dannie Richmond
At the Half Note Again (1965) with Cohn, pianist Roger Kellaway, bassist Bill Crow, drummer Mel Lewis. On some tracks there is a third tenor player Richie Kamuca and a different rhythm section (pianist Dave Frishberg, bassist Tommy Potter and Lewis
Bossa Nova Session (1962) with Jimm Hall
Al Cohn & Zoot Sims - Easy As Pie - live at the Left Bank Jazz Society night at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, 1968. Rhythm section is Dave Frishberg, Victor Sproles on bass and Donald McDonald on drums
Zoot Sims/Al Cohn - Body and Soul (1973) With Jaki Byard on Piano, George Duvivier on Bass and Mel Lewis on Drums.
Zoot Suite (1973) - live with Jimmy Rowles, George Mraz(bass) and Mousey Alexander
Joe Venuti/Zoot Sims - Joe & Zoot & More (1973) w Spencer Clark on bass saxophone, Milt Hinton and Bucky Pizzarelli
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (1975) with pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, George Mraz and Grady Tate (drums)
Count Basie/Zoot Sims Basie and Zoot (1975) quartet w bassist John Heard and drummer Louie Bellson. A bluesy set.
Soprano Sax (1976) with Ray Bryant, George Mraz, and Grady Tate
Somebody Loves Me, a re-issue of tracks cut in the mid-70s for the Groove Merchant label, featuring Sims on tenor and soprano with Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar), Milt Hinton (bass), and Buddy Rich (drums). Some of this was released at the time as the album Nirvana. Reissued by Pilz Records (USA) on CD as Send in the Clowns
If I'm Lucky (1977) with pianist Jimmy Rowles, George Mraz and Mousey Alexander. Released on Norman Granz's Pablo Records
For Lady Day (1978) Sims, Rowles and Mraz, performing some of Billie Holiday's favourite numbers. Jackie Williams on drums
Zoot Sims and Sweets Edison - Just Friends (1978). Released on Norman Granz' Pablo Records
Zoot Sims in Copenhagen (1978)
Art Pepper/Zoot Sims - Art 'n' Zoot (1981) - with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Barney Kessell
Zoot Sims with Joe Pass - Blues For Two (1982)
Suddenly It's Spring - (1983) w Rowles, Mraz and Akira Tana
Quietly There (1984) Zoot Sims plays Johnny Mandel compositions with Mike Wofford piano, Chuck Berghofer bass, Nick Ceroli drums, and Victor Feldman percussion, his penultimate recording
I saw him at the Blue Note in NYC a bit before he left us . I saw how gaunt he looked and just knew he wouldn't be around to much longer . He played beautifully that night with Carmen Mcrae
I guess this is to the main thread instead of a particular poster. Double postings can happen otherwise, even when one removes the post (because the software does not alert that the message was posted).
Yes indeed, we are interested in Mr. Getz's cancer as well, because we don't know what type of lymphoma it was. We do, however, know just what disease means to jazz, thanks to this author:
The Lost Years: The Impact of Cirrhosis on the History of Jazz, Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
europepmc.org/articles/PMC2721805
'....Hepatitis B vaccination could improve longevity, but alcoholism and hepatitis C remain major health issues among jazz musicians....Hepatocellular carcinoma also claimed major saxophone stylists Stan Getz....and Steve Lacy....It is interesting to speculate where jazz may have gone if John Coltrane and Charlie Parker lived into their 80s rather than succumb to the ravages of liver disease in their 30s. If we assume an average life span of 75 years fo an adult man, the jazz musicians depicted in Figure 1 have lost a combined 461 years of jazz productivity as a consequence of cirrhosis.'
Coltrane died of HBV-induced hepatocellular carcinoma in 1967 at age 41. This was the year of the Marburg outbreak in Germany. MikeL was diagnosed with HBV in Dec 1996, though having cleared the virus sometime between then and June 2018 when diagnosed as HBV-free and eligible for vaccination. We also recall Cheryl Bentyne's bout in 2010 with Hodgkin lymphoma.
Richard Ransom
Stan Getz, Al Cohn, The Brothers (1949) Prestige Records
Zoot (1956) with Johnny Williams, Nick Travis (trumpet), Gus Johnson and Nabil Totah. Compositions by George Handy
Tenor Conclave (1956) with Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor
Goes To Jazzville (1956) with Totah, Williams, Bill Anthony, Jerome Lloyd, and Gus Johnson
Zoot Sims and The Joe Castro Trio Live at Falcon Lair (1956)
That Old Feeling is a double-issue CD of two 1956 albums, one including "Bohemia After Dark", Sims' first recorded alto solo, and Zoot Sims plays Alto, Tenor, and Baritone
Zoot Sims/Al Cohn - Hoagy Carmichael Sessions and More (1957) recorded in New York, Sims plays tenor and Cohn, baritone with Nick Travis, trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, pianist Elliot Lawrence, bassist Milt Hinton, and drummer Osie Johnson. Arrangements by Bill Elton
Together Again! (1957) with Al Cohn, Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, Elliot Lawrence, Burgher Jones and Don Lamond
A Night at the Half Note (1959) with Al Cohn, Mose Allison, Paul Motian, Nabil Totah, and Phil Woods
Either Way (1959-60) with Cecil Colier, Bill Crow, Gus Johnson, and Mose Allison
The double-CD Al Cohn with Zoot Sims Complete Original Quintet/Sextet Studio Recordings contains:
their first quintet/sextet collaboration from 1952
From A To Z (1956)
Al And Zoot (1957)
You 'N' Me (1960) with Allison, Major Holley, and Osie Johnson. Cohn and Sims play clarinet on "Angel Eyes" and tenor on most tracks
Down Home (1960) with Dave McKenna, George Tucker, and Dannie Richmond
At the Half Note Again (1965) with Cohn, pianist Roger Kellaway, bassist Bill Crow, drummer Mel Lewis. On some tracks there is a third tenor player Richie Kamuca and a different rhythm section (pianist Dave Frishberg, bassist Tommy Potter and Lewis
Bossa Nova Session (1962) with Jimm Hall
Al Cohn & Zoot Sims - Easy As Pie - live at the Left Bank Jazz Society night at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, 1968. Rhythm section is Dave Frishberg, Victor Sproles on bass and Donald McDonald on drums
Zoot Sims/Al Cohn - Body and Soul (1973) With Jaki Byard on Piano, George Duvivier on Bass and Mel Lewis on Drums.
Zoot Suite (1973) - live with Jimmy Rowles, George Mraz(bass) and Mousey Alexander
Joe Venuti/Zoot Sims - Joe & Zoot & More (1973) w Spencer Clark on bass saxophone, Milt Hinton and Bucky Pizzarelli
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (1975) with pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, George Mraz and Grady Tate (drums)
Count Basie/Zoot Sims Basie and Zoot (1975) quartet w bassist John Heard and drummer Louie Bellson. A bluesy set.
Soprano Sax (1976) with Ray Bryant, George Mraz, and Grady Tate
Somebody Loves Me, a re-issue of tracks cut in the mid-70s for the Groove Merchant label, featuring Sims on tenor and soprano with Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar), Milt Hinton (bass), and Buddy Rich (drums). Some of this was released at the time as the album Nirvana. Reissued by Pilz Records (USA) on CD as Send in the Clowns
If I'm Lucky (1977) with pianist Jimmy Rowles, George Mraz and Mousey Alexander. Released on Norman Granz's Pablo Records
For Lady Day (1978) Sims, Rowles and Mraz, performing some of Billie Holiday's favourite numbers. Jackie Williams on drums
Zoot Sims and Sweets Edison - Just Friends (1978). Released on Norman Granz' Pablo Records
Zoot Sims in Copenhagen (1978)
Art Pepper/Zoot Sims - Art 'n' Zoot (1981) - with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Barney Kessell
Zoot Sims with Joe Pass - Blues For Two (1982)
Suddenly It's Spring - (1983) w Rowles, Mraz and Akira Tana
Quietly There (1984) Zoot Sims plays Johnny Mandel compositions with Mike Wofford piano, Chuck Berghofer bass, Nick Ceroli drums, and Victor Feldman percussion, his penultimate recording
Sep 20, 2009
Sal Sax
I saw him at the Blue Note in NYC a bit before he left us . I saw how gaunt he looked and just knew he wouldn't be around to much longer . He played beautifully that night with Carmen Mcrae
Jul 12, 2014
Mike Lansing
I guess this is to the main thread instead of a particular poster. Double postings can happen otherwise, even when one removes the post (because the software does not alert that the message was posted).
Yes indeed, we are interested in Mr. Getz's cancer as well, because we don't know what type of lymphoma it was. We do, however, know just what disease means to jazz, thanks to this author:
The Lost Years: The Impact of Cirrhosis on the History of Jazz, Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
europepmc.org/articles/PMC2721805
'....Hepatitis B vaccination could improve longevity, but alcoholism and hepatitis C remain major health issues among jazz musicians....Hepatocellular carcinoma also claimed major saxophone stylists Stan Getz....and Steve Lacy....It is interesting to speculate where jazz may have gone if John Coltrane and Charlie Parker lived into their 80s rather than succumb to the ravages of liver disease in their 30s. If we assume an average life span of 75 years fo an adult man, the jazz musicians depicted in Figure 1 have lost a combined 461 years of jazz productivity as a consequence of cirrhosis.'
Coltrane died of HBV-induced hepatocellular carcinoma in 1967 at age 41. This was the year of the Marburg outbreak in Germany. MikeL was diagnosed with HBV in Dec 1996, though having cleared the virus sometime between then and June 2018 when diagnosed as HBV-free and eligible for vaccination. We also recall Cheryl Bentyne's bout in 2010 with Hodgkin lymphoma.
Jul 5, 2018