1957 studio album by Herbie Steward, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and Serge Chaloff
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]
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [ 2]
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".[ 2]
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."[ 3]
A reviewer for Billboard commented: "The blowing is the thing, and the fellows... give fine accountings of themselves."[ 4]
All compositions by Al Cohn except as indicated
"Four Brothers " (Jimmy Giuffre ) - 3:46 "Ten Years Later" - 3:00 "The Pretty One" (Elliot Lawrence) - 3:29 "Aged in Wood" - 2:55 "Here We Go Again" (Manny Albam) - 3:46 "Four and One More" (Gerry Mulligan ) - 4:02 "So Blue" - 3:22 "The Swinging Door" (Mulligan, Zoot Sims) - 2:45 "Four in Hand" (Manny Albam ) - 3:09 "A Quick One" - 3:46
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader The Brothers (and Stan Getz , 1949–52) Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956) Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer , 1956) Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Zoot! (1956) Locking Horns (and Joe Newman , 1957) Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods , 1959) Down Home (1960) Two Jims and Zoot /Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall , 1964) Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt , 1965) Waiting Game (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967) Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli , Buddy Rich , 1974) Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie , 1975) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975) Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , 1975) Soprano Sax (1976) Hawthorne Nights (1976) If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles , 1977) For Lady Day (1978) Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles , 1979) The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson , 1979) Just Friends (and Harry Edison , 1980) Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper , 1981) Recordings withAl Cohn From A to...Z (1956) The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956) Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley , John Coltrane , 1957) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward , Serge Chaloff , 1957) Al and Zoot (1957) Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac , 1959) SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral , Steve Allen , 1959) Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960) You 'n' Me (1960) Either Way (1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962) Body and Soul (1973) Motoring Along (1974) WithQuincy Jones WithGerry Mulligan With others Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Encounter! (Pepper Adams , 1968) Trigger Happy! /East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott , 1956) Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner , 1973) Louis Bellson Quintet (1954) The Genius of Ray Charles (1959) Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961) Chris Connor (1956) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin , 1960) Loose Blues (Bill Evans , 1962) The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer , 1959) South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller , 1961) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett , 1967) The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins , 1956) Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton , 1953) The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975) Profiles (Gary McFarland , 1966) Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae , 1959) Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973) Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus , 1962) Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose , 1954) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson , 1966) The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966) Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967) All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day , 1962) Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton , 1974) Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954) Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963) Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith , 1952) Phoebe Snow (1974) Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt , 1965) Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan , 1958) The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams , 1963)
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums Al Cohn's Tones (1950 & 1953) Mr. Music (1954) The Natural Seven (1955) That Old Feeling (1955) Four Brass One Tenor (1955) The Brothers! (with Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca , 1955) From A to...Z (with Zoot Sims , 1956) The Sax Section (1956) Cohn on the Saxophone (1956) Tenor Conclave (with John Coltrane , Hank Mobley , and Zoot Sims, 1956) The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer (1956) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (with Herbie Steward , Zoot Sims, and Serge Chaloff , 1957) Al and Zoot (with Zoot Sims, 1957) You 'n' Me (with Zoot Sims, 1960) Son of Drum Suite (1960) Either Way (with Zoot Sims, 1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (1962) Body and Soul (with Zoot Sims, 1973) Motoring Along (with Zoot Sims, 1974) Play It Now (1975) True Blue (with Dexter Gordon , 1976) Silver Blue (with Dexter Gordon, 1976) Al Cohn's America (1976) Heavy Love (with Jimmy Rowles , 1977) No Problem (1979) Live albums