The Brothers (album)

1956 studio album by Stan Getz and Zoot Sims

The Brothers

Studio album by

Stan Getz and Zoot Sims

Released| 1956
Recorded| April 8, 1949 & September 8, 1952
Genre| Jazz
Length| 43:23
Label| Prestige PRLP 7022
Zoot Sims chronology
|  | The Brothers
(1956)  | Zoot Sims All Stars
(1953)

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Stan Getz chronology
| Early Stan
(1948)  | The Brothers
(1949)  | Stan Getz Quartets
(1949)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [2]

The Brothers is a studio compilation album by American saxophonists Stan Getz and Zoot Sims released in 1956[3] via Prestige label.[4]

## Background

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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.[4]

## Reception

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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".[1]

## Track listing

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The Brothers track listingNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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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

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* Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
* Al Cohn – tenor saxophone
* Allen Eager – tenor saxophone (tracks:1–7)
* Brew Moore – tenor saxophone (tracks: 1–7)
* Stan Getz – tenor saxophone (tracks: 1–7)
* Kai Winding – trombone (tracks: 8–11)
* George Wallington – piano (tracks: 8–11)
* Walter Bishop – piano (tracks: 1–7)
* Gene Ramey – bass (tracks: 1–7)
* Percy Heath – bass(tracks: 8–11)
* Charlie Perry – drums (tracks: 1–7)
* Art Blakey – drums (tracks: 8–11)

(Tracks 8–11 released in 1953 on 10 inch Prestige LP Zoot Sims All-Stars)

### Production

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* Don Martin – artwork
* Bob Weinstock – supervisor
* Joe Tarantino – digital remastering

## References

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1. ^ a b Cook, Stephen. "Stan Getz / Zoot Sims – The Brothers". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 543\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
3. ^ Popoff, Martin (2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4402-2916-9. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
4. ^ a b "Stan Getz / Zoot Sims – The Brothers". Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
5. ^ "Zoot Sims Discography". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved April 1, 2016.

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Stan Getz

* Discography

Studio albums|

* Moonlight in Vermont (1952)
* Diz and Getz (1953)
* Interpretations by the Stan Getz Quintet (1953)
* Stan Getz Plays (1955)
* Hamp and Getz with Lionel Hampton (1955)
* West Coast Jazz (1955)
* Stan Getz in Stockholm (1955)
* For Musicians Only (1956)
* The Steamer (1956)
* The Soft Swing (1957)
* Jazz Giants '58 (1957)
* Award Winner: Stan Getz (1957)
* Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio with Oscar Peterson (1957)
* Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan (1957)
* Like Someone in Love (1957)
* Stan Meets Chet with Chet Baker (1958)
* Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet (1958)
* Imported from Europe (1958)
* Stan Getz at Large (1960)
* Cool Velvet (1960)
* Recorded Fall 1961 (1961)
* Focus (1962)
* Jazz Samba (1962)
* Big Band Bossa Nova (1962)
* Jazz Samba Encore! (1963)
* Getz/Gilberto (1963)
* Reflections (1963)
* Stan Getz with Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida (1963)
* Nobody Else but Me (1964)
* Stan Getz & Bill Evans (1964)
* Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (1964)
* Voices (1966)
* Sweet Rain (1967)
* What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1968)
* Didn't We (1969)
* Marrakesh Express (1969)
* Change of Scenes with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band (1971)
* Communications '72 (1972)
* Captain Marvel (1972)
* The Best of Two Worlds Featuring João Gilberto (1975)
* The Master (1975)
* The Peacocks (1975)
* Another World (1977)
* Children of the World (1978)
* Forest Eyes (1979)
* Billy Highstreet Samba (1981)
* Blue Skies (1982)
* Pure Getz (1982)
* Poetry with Albert Dailey (1983)
* Line for Lyons with Chet Baker (1983)
* Voyage (1986)
* Bossas & Ballads – The Lost Sessions (1989)

Live albums|

* West Coast Live (1953)
* Stan Getz at The Shrine (1954)
* Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House with J. J. Johnson (1957)
* At the Opera House (1957)
* Getz Au Go Go (1964)
* Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 (1964)
* The Stan Getz Quartet in Paris (1966)
* The Song Is You (1969)
* Dynasty (1971)
* But Beautiful (1974)
* Getz/Gilberto '76 (1976)
* Live at Montmartre (aka, Stan's Party, 1977)
* The Dolphin (1981)
* Spring Is Here (1981)
* Stan Getz Quartet Live in Paris (1982)
* Anniversary! (1987)
* Serenity (1987)

Compilation albums|

* Stan Getz Quartets (1955)
* The Brothers (1956)
* Conception (1956)
* Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds (1957)
* Prezervation with Al Haig (1968)
* The Complete Roost Recordings (1997)
* People Time: The Complete Recordings (2010)

Soundtracks|

* Stan Getz Plays Music from the Soundtrack of Mickey One (1965)
* Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)

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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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