Down Home (Zoot Sims album)
1960 studio album by Zoot Sims
Down Home jazz tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims .
Reception
Billboard [ 2] [ 4] [ 5] Down Beat [ 6]
Scott Yanow , writing for AllMusic , called it "enjoyable and consistently swinging", noting that it "gives one a look at the great pianist Dave McKenna in his early days".[ 1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz [ 3]
Track listing
Title Writer(s) 1. "Jive at Five" Count Basie , Harry "Sweets" Edison 5:18 2. "Doggin' Around" Edgar Battle , Ray Evans 4:39 3. "Avalon " Buddy DeSylva , Al Jolson , Vincent Rose 4:29 4. "I Cried for You " Gus Arnheim , Arthur Freed , Abe Lyman 6:50 5. "Bill Bailey " Hughie Cannon 5:17 6. "Goodnight, Sweetheart " Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly , Ray Noble 4:22 7. "There'll Be Some Changes Made " Billy Higgins, W. Benton Overstreet 5:24 8. "I've Heard That Blues Before" Zoot Sims 5:26 9. "There'll Be Some Changes Made" (Alternate take) Billy Higgins, W. Benton Overstreet 6:46 10. "Jive at Five" (Alternate take) Count Basie, Harry "Sweets" Edison 6:17 11. "Doggin' Around" (Alternate take) Edgar Battle, Ray Evans 3:36 12. "Avalon" (Alternate take) Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Vincent Rose 4:09 13. "Goodnight, Sweetheart" (Alternate take) Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ray Noble 5:09 14. "Bill Bailey" (Alternate take) Hughie Cannon 5:02 Total length: 1 :12 :44
Personnel
References
^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Down Home - Zoot Sims" . Allmusic.com . Retrieved October 16, 2014 . ^ a b "Jazz LP's - Moderate Sales Potential" . Billboard Music Week . January 16, 1961. Retrieved October 16, 2014 .^ a b Cook, Richard and Morton, Brian (2008) The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . Penguin. p. 1303.
^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Records - Strong Potential" . Billboard Music Week . February 20, 1961. Retrieved October 16, 2014 .^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Records - Strong Potential" . Billboard Music Week . August 18, 1962. Retrieved October 16, 2014 .^ "Down Home" . freshsoundrecords.com . Retrieved October 16, 2014 .
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As
The Brothers Stan Getz , 1949–52)Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims Tonite's Music Today Bob Brookmeyer , 1956)Whooeeee Zoot! Locking Horns Joe Newman , 1957)Stretching Out Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note Phil Woods , 1959)Down Home Two Jims and Zoot Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall , 1964)Inter-Action Sonny Stitt , 1965)Waiting Game The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World Nirvana Bucky Pizzarelli , Buddy Rich , 1974)Basie & Zoot Count Basie , 1975)The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975)Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , 1975)Soprano Sax Hawthorne Nights If I'm Lucky Jimmy Rowles , 1977)For Lady Day Warm Tenor Jimmy Rowles , 1979)The Sweetest Sounds Rune Gustafsson , 1979)Just Friends Harry Edison , 1980)Art 'n' Zoot Art Pepper , 1981) RecordingsAl Cohn
From A to...Z The Sax Section Tenor Conclave Hank Mobley , John Coltrane , 1957)The Four Brothers... Together Again! Herbie Steward , Serge Chaloff , 1957)Al and Zoot Blues and Haikus Jack Kerouac , 1959)SteveIreneo! Irene Kral , Steve Allen , 1959)Son of Drum Suite You 'n' Me Either Way Jazz Mission to Moscow Body and Soul Motoring Along WithQuincy WithGerry With
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus Encounter! Pepper Adams , 1968)Trigger Happy! East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott , 1956)Chet Baker & Strings Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe The Bosses "Big Joe" Turner , 1973)Louis Bellson Quintet The Genius of Ray Charles Jazz Is Universal Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961)Chris Connor 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 The Manhattan Transfer Profiles Gary McFarland , 1966)Something to Swing About Carmen McRae , 1959)Ms. Jazz Metronome All-Stars 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 Jazzhattan Suite All the Sad Young Men Anita O'Day , 1962)Transition Lionel Hampton , 1974)Shorty Rogers Courts the Count Samba Para Dos Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)Moonlight in Vermont Johnny Smith , 1952)Phoebe Snow Broadway Soul Sonny Stitt , 1965)Vaughan and Violins Sarah Vaughan , 1958)The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More The Jazz Guitarist At Newport '63 Joe Williams , 1963)
