Zoot Sims - Passion Flower (Zoot Sims Plays Duke Ellington) [LP] Bluegrass

Zoot Sims - Passion Flower (Zoot Sims Plays Duke Ellington) [LP] BluegrassHere is an album of Duke Ellington compositions arranged and conducted by Benny Carter, with Zoot Sims as principal soloist. Add those names to the list of musicians in the adjoining display and you get a total greater than the sum of it's parts. Among the many albums Sims made for Pablo, the Ellington project was particularly close to his heart. The Ellington band of 1940 and '41 was a formative influence on the young tenor man setting out on his

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