Zoot!
{{Short description|Album by Zoot Sims}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Zoot!
| type = Studio
| artist = Zoot Sims
| cover = Zoot! (Zoot Sims album - cover art).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1957
| recorded = December 13 & 18, 1956
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 40:14
| label = Riverside
RLP 12-228
| producer = Orrin Keepnews
| chronology = Zoot Sims
| prev_title = Zoot Sims Plays Alto, Tenor and Baritone
| prev_year = 1956
| next_title = Zoot Sims Plays 4 Altos
| next_year = 1957
}}
Zoot! (also released as Zoot Sims Quintet) is an album by American jazz saxophonist Zoot Sims featuring tracks recorded in 1956 for the Riverside label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/catalog-200-series/#rlp-12-228 Riverside Records discography] accessed August 30, 2012
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with Scott Yanow calling it "a typically hard-swinging and melodic Zoot Sims date".Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/zoot%21-mw0000674754 Allmusic Review] accessed August 30, 2012
Track listing
All compositions by Florence Handy except as indicated
- "Why Cry?" - 5:54
- "Echoes of You" - 7:12
- "Swim, Jim" - 7:07
- "Here and Now" - 4:55
- "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 4:30
- "Osmosis" (Osie Johnson) - 4:44
- "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) - 6:01