1977 studio album by Zoot Sims and Jimmy Rowles
If I'm Lucky Released 1977 Recorded October 27 & 28, 1977 Studio RCA Studios, NYC Genre Jazz Length 45 :11 Label Pablo 2310-803 Producer Norman Granz
Music's the Only Thing on My Mind If I'm Lucky As Good as It Gets
If I'm Lucky Zoot Sims with pianist Jimmy Rowles , recorded in 1977 for the Pablo label.[ 1] [ 2]
Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, and its review by Scott Yanow calls it an "enjoyable straight-ahead date".[ 3] All About Jazz [ 5] The Penguin Guide to Jazz [ 4] [ 6]
Track listing
"(I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone" (Buddy Johnson ) - 4:54
"Legs" (Neal Hefti ) - 6:31
"If I'm Lucky" (Eddie DeLange , Josef Myrow ) - 5:29
"Shadow Waltz" (Harry Warren , Al Dubin ) - 5:34
"You're My Everything " (Warren, Mort Dixon , Joe Young ) - 5:26
"It's All Right With Me " (Cole Porter ) - 6:54
"Gypsy Sweetheart" (Mitchell Parish ) - 4:18
"I Hear a Rhapsody " (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) - 6:28
Personnel
References
^ Edwards, D., Callahan, Eyries, P., Watts, R. & Neely, T. Discography of the Pablo Label (Preview) , accessed May 20, 2016
^ Zoot Sims Catalog: Album Index , accessed May 20, 2016^ a b Yanow, Scott. If I'm Lucky – ReviewAllMusic . Retrieved May 20, 2016.
^ a b Cook, Richard ; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Zoot Sims". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1304. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0 ^ Barnet, M. All About Jazz: Listening Guide , March 28, 2016
^ Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection List , accessed May 20, 2016
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As
The Brothers Stan Getz , 1949–52)Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims Tonite's Music Today Bob Brookmeyer , 1956)Whooeeee Zoot! Locking Horns Joe Newman , 1957)Stretching Out Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note Phil Woods , 1959)Down Home Two Jims and Zoot Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall , 1964)Inter-Action Sonny Stitt , 1965)Waiting Game The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World Nirvana Bucky Pizzarelli , Buddy Rich , 1974)Basie & Zoot Count Basie , 1975)The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975)Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , 1975)Soprano Sax Hawthorne Nights If I'm Lucky Jimmy Rowles , 1977)For Lady Day Warm Tenor Jimmy Rowles , 1979)The Sweetest Sounds Rune Gustafsson , 1979)Just Friends Harry Edison , 1980)Art 'n' Zoot Art Pepper , 1981) RecordingsAl Cohn
From A to...Z The Sax Section Tenor Conclave Hank Mobley , John Coltrane , 1957)The Four Brothers... Together Again! Herbie Steward , Serge Chaloff , 1957)Al and Zoot Blues and Haikus Jack Kerouac , 1959)SteveIreneo! Irene Kral , Steve Allen , 1959)Son of Drum Suite You 'n' Me Either Way Jazz Mission to Moscow Body and Soul Motoring Along WithQuincy WithGerry With
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus Encounter! Pepper Adams , 1968)Trigger Happy! East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott , 1956)Chet Baker & Strings Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe The Bosses "Big Joe" Turner , 1973)Louis Bellson Quintet The Genius of Ray Charles Jazz Is Universal Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961)Chris Connor 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 The Manhattan Transfer Profiles Gary McFarland , 1966)Something to Swing About Carmen McRae , 1959)Ms. Jazz Metronome All-Stars 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 Jazzhattan Suite All the Sad Young Men Anita O'Day , 1962)Transition Lionel Hampton , 1974)Shorty Rogers Courts the Count Samba Para Dos Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)Moonlight in Vermont Johnny Smith , 1952)Phoebe Snow Broadway Soul Sonny Stitt , 1965)Vaughan and Violins Sarah Vaughan , 1958)The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More The Jazz Guitarist At Newport '63 Joe Williams , 1963)
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