| Show Bruce and the Blues By Bruce Bell One of the most recent albums added to my collection is a Riverside recording simply entitled The are anything but Zoot Sims has long been striving for He in attained much of it due In the past few he has finally emerged as a rated tenor This is only as it should Alto Originals Also in this Zoot been playing alto on several of his The new Riverside album is no Zoot plays two tunes on and Both are is a hard driving and Zoot along with trum-petter Nick Travis drain all the fluid from this They play the tune skillfully and The second is based on a blues line taken at a medium is one of Zoot's favorite The tune is a light thing that explores Zoot's tune and blues Both features of his playing are of the lasting Simple Attack Zoot is a fresh alto His concept belongs to and if he is a Bird the influence is implicit rather than the explicit influence which shows in the playing of so many of today's young Zoot's attack is What he pushes through his horn belongs to only who has been playing exciting jazz for one long Zoot belongs to a small group of today's musicians who are concerned with honesty in their By this I mean they play what they believe be it The main concern being quality in tones as well as Zoot is not the musician who has gone without but what he has lacked at times in he has always made up for in Zoot Sims has always been a good tenor and someday he may become a great influence on a future generation of |
