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1957 studio album by Herbie Steward, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and Serge Chaloff
The Four Brothers... Together Again! Herbie Steward , Al Cohn , Zoot Sims and Serge Chaloff , who were collectively known as the Four Brothers , recorded in 1957 for the RCA Records subsidiary Vik label.[1]
Reception [ edit ] Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [2]
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "The music overall on this CD reissue is quite enjoyable and Sims, Cohn and Steward show how much they had grown during the previous decade".[2]
In a review for All About Jazz , Marc Myers called the recording "a superb album that shows off the enormous reed work of four seasoned swingers," and wrote: "The saxophonists sounded as one together but went their merry way when playing alone... The emphasis on blended harmonies and Young-like saxes playing together would become the basis for West Coast jazz just a few years later."[3]
A reviewer for Billboard commented: "The blowing is the thing, and the fellows... give fine accountings of themselves."[4]
Track listing [ edit ] All compositions by Al Cohn except as indicated
"Four Brothers " (Jimmy Giuffre ) - 3:46
"Ten Years Later" - 3:00
"The Pretty One" (Elliot Lawrence) - 3:29
"Aged in Wood" - 2:55
"Here We Go Again" (Manny Albam) - 3:46
"Four and One More" (Gerry Mulligan ) - 4:02
"So Blue" - 3:22
"The Swinging Door" (Mulligan, Zoot Sims) - 2:45
"Four in Hand" (Manny Albam ) - 3:09
"A Quick One" - 3:46 Personnel [ edit ] References [ edit ]
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)
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums
Al Cohn's Tones Mr. Music The Natural Seven That Old Feeling Four Brass One Tenor The Brothers! Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca , 1955)From A to...Z Zoot Sims , 1956)The Sax Section Cohn on the Saxophone Tenor Conclave John Coltrane , Hank Mobley , and Zoot Sims, 1956)The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer The Four Brothers... Together Again! Herbie Steward , Zoot Sims, and Serge Chaloff , 1957)Al and Zoot You 'n' Me Son of Drum Suite Either Way Jazz Mission to Moscow Body and Soul Motoring Along Play It Now True Blue Dexter Gordon , 1976)Silver Blue Al Cohn's America Heavy Love Jimmy Rowles , 1977)No Problem Live albums
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