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1956 studio album by Stan Getz and Zoot Sims
The Brothers
Released 1956 Recorded April 8, 1949 & September 8, 1952
Genre
Jazz Length 43 :23
Label
Prestige PRLP 7022
The Brothers (1956)
Zoot Sims All Stars (1953)
The Brothers is a studio compilation album by American saxophonists
Stan Getz and
Zoot Sims released in 1956
[3] via
Prestige label.
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Background
The four sides recorded on April 8, 1949, were released on the New Jazz and Prestige labels in 1949 and 1950 (New Jazz 802 and 818, and Prestige 724). The label listed the artist as the Stan Getz Tenor Sax Stars. Prestige compiled the songs into an album for the first time in 1956, at that time adding four additional songs by Zoot Sims and Al Cohn.
[5] a record that was later re-released many times. In its first form as an album, the eight-song record was labeled as PRLP-7022. When Fantasy/Prestige released the album in the Compact Disc format (c. 1992), they added three previously-released alternate takes from the 1949 session that had been in the vaults.
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Reception
Stephen Cook of
AllMusic stated "The music on this LP recalls the airy "Four Brothers" sound that tenor saxophonists Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Herbie Steward, and baritone saxophonist Serge Charloff, plied in Woody Herman's band of 1947... A 1952 sextet date led by Sims and Cohn is also included, offering up another round of original and buoyantly swinging cuts, bolstered by lively contributions from trombonist Kai Winding and solid rhythmic support by pianist George Wallington, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Art Blakey. A fine release that nicely showcases the cool, proto-West Coast bop forged by both these soloists and Miles Davis".
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Track listing
The Brothers track listingTitle Writer(s) 1. "Five Brothers"
Gerry Mulligan 3:10 2. "Five Brothers" (Alternate take on selected reissues) Gerry Mulligan 3:34 3. "Battle of the Saxes"
Al Cohn 3:52 4. "Battleground" Al Cohn 3:46 5. "Battleground" (Alternate take on selected reissues) Al Cohn 3:31 6. "Four and One Moore" Gerry Mulligan 3:22 7. "Four and One Moore" (Alternate take on selected reissues) Gerry Mulligan 3:15 8. "The Red Door"
Zoot Sims 4:34 9. "Zootcase" Zoot Sims 4:18 10. "
Tangerine "
Victor Schertzinger 4:24 11. "Morning Fun" Al Cohn 5:37 Total length: 43:23
Personnel
(Tracks 8–11 released in 1953 on 10 inch Prestige LP Zoot Sims All-Stars )
Production
Don Martin – artwork
Bob Weinstock – supervisor
Joe Tarantino – digital remastering
References
Studio albums Live albums Compilation albums Soundtracks
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader
The Brothers (and
Stan Getz , 1949–52)
Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956)
The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956)
Tonite's Music Today (and
Bob Brookmeyer , 1956)
Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
Zoot! (1956)
Locking Horns (and
Joe Newman , 1957)
Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958)
Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn,
Phil Woods , 1959)
Down Home (1960)
Two Jims and Zoot /Otra Vez (
Jimmy Raney and
Jim Hall , 1964)
Inter-Action (and
Sonny Stitt , 1965)
Waiting Game (1966)
The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)
Nirvana (and
Bucky Pizzarelli ,
Buddy Rich , 1974)
Basie & Zoot (and
Count Basie , 1975)
The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975)
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and
Joe Pass ,
Oscar Peterson , 1975)
Soprano Sax (1976)
Hawthorne Nights (1976)
If I'm Lucky (and
Jimmy Rowles , 1977)
For Lady Day (1978)
Warm Tenor (and
Jimmy Rowles , 1979)
The Sweetest Sounds (and
Rune Gustafsson , 1979)
Just Friends (and
Harry Edison , 1980)
Art 'n' Zoot (and
Art Pepper , 1981)
Recordings with
Al Cohn
From A to...Z (1956)
The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956)
Tenor Conclave (and
Hank Mobley ,
John Coltrane , 1957)
The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and
Herbie Steward ,
Serge Chaloff , 1957)
Al and Zoot (1957)
Blues and Haikus (
Jack Kerouac , 1959)
SteveIreneo! (and
Irene Kral ,
Steve Allen , 1959)
Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960)
You 'n' Me (1960)
Either Way (1961)
Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962)
Body and Soul (1973)
Motoring Along (1974)
With
Quincy Jones With
Gerry Mulligan With others
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
Encounter! (
Pepper Adams , 1968)
Trigger Happy! /East Coast Sounds (
Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn,
Tony Scott , 1956)
Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54)
Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
The Bosses (Count Basie and
"Big Joe" Turner , 1973)
Louis Bellson Quintet (1954)
The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
Jazz Is Universal (
Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961)
Chris Connor (1956)
The Book Cooks (
Booker Ervin , 1960)
Loose Blues (
Bill Evans , 1962)
The Aztec Suite (
Art Farmer , 1959)
South American Cookin' (
Curtis Fuller , 1961)
Creole Cookin' (
Bobby Hackett , 1967)
The Hawk in Hi Fi (
Coleman Hawkins , 1956)
Portraits on Standards (
Stan Kenton , 1953)
The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953)
The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975)
Profiles (
Gary McFarland , 1966)
Something to Swing About (
Carmen McRae , 1959)
Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973)
Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
The Complete Town Hall Concert (
Charles Mingus , 1962)
Arranged by Montrose (
Jack Montrose , 1954)
Encyclopedia of Jazz (
Oliver Nelson , 1966)
The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967)
All the Sad Young Men (
Anita O'Day , 1962)
Transition (Buddy Rich,
Lionel Hampton , 1974)
Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954)
Samba Para Dos (
Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)
Moonlight in Vermont (
Johnny Smith , 1952)
Phoebe Snow (1974)
Broadway Soul (
Sonny Stitt , 1965)
Vaughan and Violins (
Sarah Vaughan , 1958)
The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953)
At Newport '63 (
Joe Williams , 1963)