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Lost Tapes

Zoot Sims

Year recorded

1958

Year published

2013

Composer

Denzil Best

Gene de Paul

Hans Hammerschmid

Harry Barris

Jerome Kern

John Haley 'Zoot' Sims

Ray Link

Richard Rogers

Victor Schertzinger

Artists

John Haley 'Zoot' Sims

Hans Koller

Willie Dennis

Adi Feuerstein

Gerd Husemann

Helmut Brandt

Hans Hammerschmid

Peter Trunk

Kenny Clarke

Tracks

Tr. 1 Jerome Kern: All The Things You Are

Tr. 2 Denzil Best: Alan's Alley

Tr. 3 Hans Hammerschmid: Minor Meeting For Two Clarinets

Tr. 4 Richard Rogers: Fallin' In Love

Tr. 5 Hans Hammerschmid: Blue Night

Tr. 6 Hans Hammerschmid: Open Door

Tr. 7 Harry Barris: I Surrender Dear

Tr. 8 Victor Schertzinger: Tangerine

Tr. 9 Ray Link: These Foolish Things

Tr. 10 Gene de Paul: I'll Remember April

Tr. 11 John Haley 'Zoot' Sims: Trottin'

In 1958 Sims played with Benny Goodman at Expo ‘58 in Brussels, where he met the Viennese-born Hans Koller, then Europe’s coolest tenor sax. Two years earlier Sims had made a Blue Note recording with the German pianist Jutta Hipp and he was keen to meet other European jazz musicians.