Zoot!

{{Short description|Album by Zoot Sims}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{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.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/catalog-200-series/#rlp-12-228 Riverside Records discography] accessed August 30, 2012</ref>

==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with Scott Yanow calling it "a typically hard-swinging and melodic Zoot Sims date".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/zoot%21-mw0000674754 Allmusic Review] accessed August 30, 2012</ref>

==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

== Personnel == *Zoot Sims - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone *Nick Travis - trumpet *George Handy - piano, arranger *Wilbur Ware - bass *Osie Johnson - drums

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Category:1957 albums Category:Zoot Sims albums Category:Albums produced by Orrin Keepnews Category:Riverside Records albums