Zoot Sims

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American jazz saxophonist human jazz musician saxophonist

Zoot Sims was an American jazz saxophonist known for his smooth, swinging style and prominent role in the cool jazz and West Coast jazz movements.

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Label	Occurrences
Zoot Sims canonical	8
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American jazz saxophonist ⓘ human ⓘ jazz musician ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ
activeYearsEnd	1980s ⓘ
activeYearsStart	1940s ⓘ
associatedAct	Al Cohn ⓘ Buddy Rich ⓘ Count Basie ⓘ Gerry Mulligan ⓘ Stan Kenton ⓘ Woody Herman ⓘ
birthName	John Haley Sims ⓘ
causeOfDeath	cancer ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1925-10-29 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1985-03-23 ⓘ
ethnicity	American of English descent ⓘ
familyName	Sims ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	West Coast jazz ⓘ cool jazz ⓘ jazz ⓘ swing ⓘ
givenName	John ⓘ
influencedBy	Lester Young ⓘ
instrument	alto saxophone ⓘ soprano saxophone ⓘ tenor saxophone ⓘ
movement	West Coast jazz ⓘ cool jazz ⓘ
nickname	Zoot ⓘ
notableFor	being one of the leading tenor saxophonists of the cool jazz era ⓘ
notableWork	Down Home (1960 album) ⓘ Zoot Sims Plays Alto, Tenor and Baritone ⓘ Zoot Sims Plays Four Classic Albums ⓘ Zoot Sims self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers Zoot! (1956 album) ⓘ
occupation	bandleader ⓘ musician ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Inglewood ⓘ surface form: Inglewood, California, United States
placeOfDeath	New York City ⓘ surface form: New York City, New York, United States
recordLabel	Pablo Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Prestige Records ⓘ Riverside Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Roulette Records ⓘ
style	smooth, swinging saxophone tone ⓘ

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Pablo Records → releasedMusicBy → Zoot Sims ⓘ

Lester Young → influenced → Zoot Sims ⓘ

Prestige Records → notableArtist → Zoot Sims ⓘ

Joe Pass → associatedAct → Zoot Sims ⓘ

Woody Herman → influenced → Zoot Sims ⓘ

Pablo Live → featuresArtist → Zoot Sims ⓘ

Pablo Today → hasNotableArtist → Zoot Sims ⓘ

Chet → featuresMusician → Zoot Sims ⓘ

Zoot Sims → notableWork → Zoot Sims self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers