Jazz Alive [Import, Live]

Al Cohn & Zoot Sims, Zoot Sims, ??????,??????? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 2, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1959
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000006Q67
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #348,979 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lover Come Back To Me

2. It Had To Be You

3. Wee Dot

4. After You've Gone

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This 1959 live session is much more than an average blowing session. With Zoot Sims and Al Cohn on tenor saxophones throughout, adding Phil Woods on alto for half the recording, the four tunes are each miniature studies in the way multiple saxes intertwine to form a kind of choral horn effect. The tunes are all standards, with J.J. Johnson's "Wee Dot" the most hard-swinging. The best thing about this recording is its impromptu showing--its revelation of the way these musicians scoped out testing grounds for multiple but similar textures in a live gig. Among the other great things, though, is the piano comping from Mose Allison, who elevates this CD at times to a veritable all-star group before most of the group's members were truly "stars." Rife with rhythmic pulse--provided amply by drummer Paul Motian and bassist Nabil Totah--this is a treasure trove that again points to the value of the current jazz reissue phase, a phase when the catalog is into its second and even third tiers. --Andrew Bartlett

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Jazz Alive

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool Jazz, September 13, 2008

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M. Beal (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jazz Alive (Audio CD)

Excellent recording, one of the best jazz albums in my collection. These 2 were obviously very comfortable playing with each other and their playing styles complement one other as they trade solos. Makes me wish I was there when it was recorded, but it was a few years before my time. The band is tight and smooth, no abstract improvisation here, just good clean music. Hard to believe they played this live!