The Four Brothers... Together Again! Explained

The Four Brothers... Together Again!
Type:Studio
Artist:Herbie Steward, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and Serge Chaloff
Cover:The_Four_Brothers_Together_Again!.jpg
Released:1957
Recorded:February 11, 1957
Webster Hall, New York City
Genre:Jazz
Label:Vik
LX 1096
Producer:Bob Rolontz
Chronology:Al Cohn
Prev Title:The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer
Prev Year:1956
Next Title:Al and Zoot
Next Year:1957

The Four Brothers... Together Again! is an album by the saxophonists 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

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".

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."[2]

A reviewer for Billboard commented: "The blowing is the thing, and the fellows... give fine accountings of themselves."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Al Cohn except as indicated

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

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.excitingsounds.com/rca-vik/ RCA Vik Record Label Discography
  2. Web site: Four Brothers: Together Again! . Marc . Myers . September 10, 2009 . All About Jazz . September 12, 2022.
  3. September 9, 1957 . Special Merit Jazz Album . Billboard . 29.