The Concord Music Group inaugurated their celebration of the 40th anniversary of Norman Granz's Pablo Records with the releases of John Coltrane: Afro Blue Impressions (Pablo, 1963/2013) and Sarah ...

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late ...

Zoot Sims was one of the most naturally talented saxophone players in jazz, most remembered for his incredible sense of swing. He was the archetypal saxophonist and found fame with the general public ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

He was a musical giant - albeit in a jazz style already unfashionable by the time he was in his creative prime. Nevertheless, it was always easy to underestimate Zoot Sims. The former Woody Herman ...

Zoot Sims Meets Jimmy Rowles (Original Jazz Classics). Tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims puts in an excellent performance on this reissue of a 1977 Pablo recording. But the surprise is Jimmy Rowles on piano ...

These two stalwarts of the Woody Herman band and the Lester Young school of tenor saxophone-playing were one of the most attractive partnerships on the conventional jazz scene of the 1960s and 70s.

Jutta Hipp grew up in Nazi Germany - where jazz was effectively outlawed - but she was able to get her hands on a radio, through which she listened to pirate radio stations broadcasting improvised ...