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(Pre Order) Zoot Sims - Passion Flower: Zoot Sims Plays Duke Ellington - Analogue Productions Pablo LP *

(Pre Order) Zoot Sims - Passion Flower: Zoot Sims Plays Duke Ellington - Analogue Productions Pablo LP *

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180g Vinyl LP!
Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the Original Analog Master Tape!
Pressed at QRP!

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.

Features

  • 180g Vinyl
  • Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the Original Analog Master Tape
  • Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
  • Gatefold Stoughton Printing Tip-On Jacket

Musicians

Zoot Sims leader
J.J. Johnson trombone
Britt Woodman trombone
Grover Mitchell trombone
Benny Powell trombone
Bobby Bryant trumpet
Al Aarons trumpet
Oscar Brashear trumpet
Earl Gardner trumpet
Marshall Royal alto sax
Frank Wess alto sax, flute
Plas Johnson tenor sax
Buddy Collette tenor sax
Jimmy Rowles piano
John Collins guitar
Andy Simpkins bass
Michael Moore bass
John Heard bass
Grady Tate drums
John Clay drums
Shelly Manne drums

Selections

  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
  6. Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me
  7. Your Love Has Faded
  8. Bojangles
  9. Passion Flower
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