AUGUST 14

                  ZOOT SIMS
             Quartet

               Recording Date:
                   August 14, 1951

               Personnel:
                    Zoot Sims         TS
                    Harry Biss          P
                    Clyde Lombardi B
                    Art Blakey         D


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Review by Scott Yanow
This CD reissue features the great tenor-saxophonist Zoot Sims (who was then 25) leading his first American recording dates. All but two numbers clock in around the three-minute mark: an over eight-minute alternate version of "Zoot Swings the Blues" and an 11-minute "East of the Sun." Sims is in fine form throughout these cool-toned but hard-swinging sets.