Waiting Game (album) explained

Waiting Game
Type:	Album
Artist:	Zoot Sims
Cover:	Waiting Game (album).jpg
Released:	1966
Recorded:	November 28 & 30, 1966
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	43:05
Label:	Impulse!
Producer:	Bob Thiele, Gary McFarland
Chronology:	Zoot Sims
Prev Title:	New Beat Bossa Nova Vol. 2
Prev Year:	1962
Next Title:	Easy as Pie: Live at the West Bank
Next Year:	1968

Waiting Game is an album by American jazz saxophonist Zoot Sims and Orchestra arranged by Gary McFarland featuring performances recorded in England in 1966 for the Impulse! label.^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Gary McFarland except as indicated

1. "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) – 4:52
2. "I Wish I Knew" (Mack Gordon) – 4:11
3. "Once We Loved" – 2:46
4. "It's a Blue World" (George Forrest, Robert Wright) – 3:47
5. "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 4:48
6. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 5:02
7. "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 4:36
8. "One I Could Have Loved" – 3:13
9. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 4:04
10. "Does the Sun Really Shine on the Moon?" – 5:46

• Recorded in London, England on November 28, 1966 (tracks 1–5 & 8–10), and November 30, 1966 (6 & 7)

Personnel

• Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone, vocals
• David Snell – harp
• Gary McFarland – arranger
• Kenny Napper, (tracks 6 & 7), Jack Parnell (tracks 1–5 & 8–10) – conductor
• Unknown Orchestra

Technical

• Robert Flynn – cover design
• Arthur Halpern – cover photography
• Nat Hentoff – liner notes

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9100-series/#a-9131 Impulse! Records discography