Zoot Sims - Down Home - Pure Pleasure LP
Zoot Sims - Down Home - Pure Pleasure LP
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Remastered, 180-gram vinyl mono limited edition release from Pure Pleasure
The cool but increasingly muscular sound of Zoot Sim's tenor sax dominates Down Home recorded in New York in 1960. Down Home features Zoot in quartet mode alongside Dave McKenna on piano, George Tucker on bass and Dannie Richmond on drums. Seven of the eight tunes in this collection could be regarded as old standards by the time Zoot made this recording in 1960. The last tune, "I've Heard That Blues Before," is a straight-ahead blues with no lead line. The quartet swings vigorously, and "Doggin' Around" and "Avalon