The Four Brothers... Together Again!

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The Four Brothers... Together Again!
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Studio album by Herbie Steward, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and Serge Chaloff
Released 1957
Recorded February 11, 1957
Webster Hall, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Vik
LX 1096
Producer Bob Rolontz
Al Cohn chronology
The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer
(1956)The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer1956
The Four Brothers... Together Again!
(1957)
Al and Zoot
(1957)Al and Zoot1957
Zoot Sims chronology
Zoot Sims Plays 4 Altos
(1957)
The Four Brothers... Together Again!
(1957)
Al and Zoot
(1957)

The Four Brothers... Together Again! is an album by saxophonists Herbie Steward, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and Serge Chaloff, who were collectived known as the Four Brothers, recorded in 1957 for the RCA Records subsidiary Vik label.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars[3]

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".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Al Cohn except as indicated

  1. "Four and One More" (Gerry Mulligan) - 4:02
  2. "So Blue" - 3:22
  3. "The Swinging Door" (Mulligan, Zoot Sims) - 2:45
  4. "Four in Hand" (Manny Albam) - 3:09
  5. "A Quick One" - 3:46
  6. "Four Brothers" (Jimmy Giuffre) - 3:46
  7. "Ten Years Later" - 3:00
  8. "The Pretty One" (Elliot Lawrence) - 3:29
  9. "Aged in Wood" - 2:55
  10. "Here We Go Again" (Manny Albam) - 3:46

Personnel

References

  1. RCA Vik Record Label Discography, accessed November 30, 2015
  2. Zoot Sims Catalog, accessed November 30, 2015
  3. 3.0 3.1 Yanow, Scott. The Four Brothers: Together Again – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 30, 2015.