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Zoot Sims - Passion Flower (Zoot Sims Plays Duke Ellington)


Label:

Analogue Productions (Pablo)

Genre:

Jazz

Product No.:
AAPJ 194
UPC: 753088019418
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180 Gram Vinyl Record


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180 Gram LP  
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180-gram vinyl

Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tape

Pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Housed in a Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket

Here is an album of Duke Ellington compositions arranged and conducted by Benny Carter, with Zoot Sims as principal soloist. Add those names to the list of musicians in the adjoining display and you get a total greater than the sum of its parts. Among the many albums Sims made for Pablo, the Ellington project was particularly close to his heart. The Ellington band of 1940 and '41 was a formative influence on the young tenor man setting out on his career.

The great tenor saxophonist Ben Webster's solos profoundly affected him. It is true that his tone was closer to Lester Young's, but Webster's conception was always a major component of Sims's style, and toward the end of his life Zoot's sound took on more of Webster's heft and darkness. Fittingly, he and Webster's favorite pianist, Jimmy Rowles, do Bojangles to a rare turn, and Sims gives an achingly beautiful reading of Duke's "Your Love Has Faded."

Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tape, and pressed at Quality Record Pressings for optimal sound quality, this Analogue Productions 180-gram reissue is an exceptional audiophile disc. Housed in a gatefold Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.

 

 



Side 1
1. It Don't Mean A Thing
2. In A Mellow Tone
3. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
4. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
5. Black Butterfly

Side 2
1. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
2. Your Love Has Faded
3. Bojangles
4. Passion Flower

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