Nirvana (Zoot Sims and Bucky Pizzarelli album)

1974 studio album by Zoot Sims and Bucky Pizzarelli

Nirvana

Studio album by

Zoot Sims and Bucky Pizzarelli

Released| 1974
Recorded| April 22, 1974
Studio| New York City, NY
Genre| Jazz
Length| 40:43
Label| Groove Merchant
GM 533
Producer| Sonny Lester
Zoot Sims chronology
| Zoot Sims' Party
(1974)  | Nirvana
(1974)  | Strike Up the Band
(1975)

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Bucky Pizzarelli chronology
| Playing the Piano Music of Bix Beiderbecke
(1974)  | Nirvana
(1974)  | Strike Up the Band
(1975)

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Nirvana is an album by American jazz saxophonist Zoot Sims and guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli with special guest Buddy Rich recorded in 1974 and released on the Groove Merchant label.[1][2]

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Allmusic| [3]

## Track listing

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1. "Somerset" (Torrie Zito) – 4:11
2. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Fats Waller, Andy Razaf) – 3:57
3. "A Summer Thing" (Zito) – 3:19
4. "Somebody Loves Me" (George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald, Buddy DeSylva) – 3:35
5. "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Don Redman, Razaf) – 2:55
6. "Nirvana" (Zoot Sims) – 4:14
7. "Indiana" (James F. Hanley, MacDonald) – 4:02
8. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Razaf) – 4:05
9. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:35
10. "Up a Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 3:22
11. "Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim) – 2:28

## Personnel

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* Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone, vocals on track 5
* Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar
* Milt Hinton – bass
* Buddy Rich – drums (tracks 1–4 & 6–11), vocals on track 5
* Stan Kay – drums (track 5)

## References

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1. ^ Zoot Sims catalog, accessed April 10, 2018
2. ^ Jazzlists: Groove Merchant Records 500 Series, accessed April 10, 2018
3. ^ Zoot Sims: Nirvana – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2018.

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Zoot Sims

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

leader

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|

* This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956)
* The Birth of a Band! (1959)
* Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962)
* Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)

With
Gerry
Mulligan|

* California Concerts (1954)
* Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955)
* Mainstream of Jazz (1956)
* The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957)
* The Concert Jazz Band (1960)
* Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)

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)

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Bucky Pizzarelli

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except for compilations.

Studio albums|

* Green Guitar Blues (1972)
* Nirvana (with Zoot Sims, 1974)
* Nirvana (1995)
* Contrasts (with John Pizzarelli, 1998)
* Passion Guitars (with John Pizzarelli, 1999)
* April Kisses (1999)
* Italian Intermezzo (with Ken Peplowski, 2000)
* One Morning in May (2001)
* Twogether (with John Pizzarelli, 2001)
* Around the World in 80 Years (2006)
* Doug and Bucky (with Doug Jernigan, 2006)
* Five for Freddie (2006)
* Generations (with John Pizzarelli, 2006)

Live albums|

* Hot Club of 52nd Street (with Howard Alden, 2003)

Compilations|

* Solos and Duets (with John Pizzarelli, 1996)

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* Discography

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