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Jazz Alive! A Night At The Half Note

Zoot Sims

Recorded	Feb 6-7, 1959
Label	United Artists Records
Released	1959
Personnel	6 credited players
Discogs	master 344610

The record

Live two-tenor sparring between Sims and Cohn, with Phil Woods sitting in and Mose Allison's bluesy piano keeping things loose -- a snapshot of late-night club energy caught on tape at the tail end of the 1950s.

Session personnel

Phil Woods — alto saxophone
Nabil Totah — bass
Paul Motian — drums
Mose Allison — piano
Al Cohn — tenor saxophone
Zoot Sims — tenor saxophone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 20 pressings on file.

1959	United Artists Records · UAL 4040 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove; gatefold
1959	United Artists Records · UAS 5040 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Album, Gatefold, Plastylite Pressing · deep groove; Plastylite ear; gatefold
1959	United Artists Records · UAL 5040 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono · deep groove; gatefold
1961	United Artists Records · UAL 4040 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono · deep groove; gatefold
1959	La Voix De Son Maître · FELP 227 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1960	United Artists Records · UAT-5022 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1970	United Artists Records — STEREO
1976	United Artists Records · GXC-3139 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1976	United Artists Records · LAX 3115 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo
1983	Blue Note · BNP 25.105 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1985	Liberty · LBJ-60057 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1991	Liberty · TOCJ-5413 — CD, Album, Promo, Reissue, Stereo
1991	Liberty · TOCJ-5413 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1998	Blue Note · 7243 4 94105 2 7 — CD, Album, Reissue