All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today! John Haley “Zoot" Sims was born in Inglewood, California. Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an ...

From the start, the tenor saxophonist fashioned his seemingly effortless sound from the music of early sax masters, then refined that sound... Zoot Sims: 'Brother' of Swing Starting in his youth, ...