Just Friends (Zoot Sims and Harry Edison album)

Just Friends is an album by saxophonist Zoot Sims (credited on the original release as John Haley Sims) with trumpeter Harry Sweets Edison recorded in late 1978 but not released by the Pablo label until 1980.

Reception

AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow stated "Although from different generations, tenor-saxophonist Zoot Sims and trumpeter Harry 'Sweets' Edison both always liked to swing, making their successful collaboration on this CD reissue not much of a surprise ... The results are predictable but colorful and inventive within the boundaries of the idiom".

Track listing

1. "Nature Boy" (eden ahbez) – 5:38
2. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 6:52
3. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter) – 5:02
4. "I Understand" (Mabel Wayne, Kim Gannon) – 3:12
5. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 5:11
6. "Blue Skies" (Berlin) – 6:18
7. "Until Tonight (Mauve)" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 4:47
8. "A Little Tutu" (Harry Sweets Edison) – 3:42

Personnel

• John Haley Sims – tenor saxophone
• Harry Sweets Edison – trumpet
• Roger Kellaway – piano
• John Heard – bass
• Jimmie Smith – drums

References

1. Just Friends (disambiguation)
2. Zoot!
3. Zoot Sims
4. Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers
5. Basie & Zoot
6. Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims
7. Two Jims and Zoot
8. The Brothers (album)
9. Soprano Sax (Zoot Sims album)
10. Stretching Out (Zoot Sims and Bob Brookmeyer album)
11. Al and Zoot
12. Harry Edison
13. The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims
14. You 'n' Me (Al Cohn-Zoot Sims Quintet album)
15. Down Home (Zoot Sims album)
16. Art 'n' Zoot
17. Tonite's Music Today
18. The Sweetest Sounds (Rune Gustafsson and Zoot Sims album)
19. The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson
20. Nirvana (Zoot Sims and Bucky Pizzarelli album)