All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today! John Haley “Zoot" Sims was born in Inglewood, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an ...
Friends of late saxophonist Zoot Sims are planning a four-hour musical party Dec. 14 at the New School for Social Research to celebrate Sims` legacy and raise funds for a scholarship fund in his name.
When critics make those lists of the 100 best jazz saxophonists, Zoot Sims usually gets mentioned somewhere in the middle, sometimes closer to the bottom. Although his name is well known, he rarely, ...
You're in for a huge treat, but you don't know it yet. Back in the 10-inch LP days, on February 14, 1955, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims was in Los Angeles cutting a four-track session for Jump Records, ...
Ten-time Grammy Award-nominee jazz flutist and saxophone player Lew Tabackin will headline the sixth annual Zoot Fest to honor the late jazz sax great Zoot Sims at East Stroudsburg University. Zoot ...
is essentially a jam session featuring a varied ensemble of musicians recorded in a studio concert on June 23, 1958. The recorded session lay forgotten in the archives of the Southwestern German ...
Ken Clarke QC MP and the film and TV composer John Altman discuss the life and music of American sax player Zoot Sims. Show more Zoot Sims was one of the most naturally talented saxophone players in ...
From the start, the tenor saxophonist fashioned his seemingly effortless sound from the music of early sax masters, then refined that sound... Zoot Sims: 'Brother' of Swing Starting in his youth, ...
There can never be too many tributes to the late Zoot Sims, a swinging and lyrical mainstream tenor saxophonist, whose influence may unfortunately be receding into the netherworld of musical history.
June 1, 2009 • What do chocolate pudding, smiles, gingerbread, fishing and dairy products have to do with each other? They all have lesser-known holidays dedicated to them in the month of June.