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
 
- "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) – 4:52
 
- "I Wish I Knew" (Mack Gordon) – 4:11
 
- "Once We Loved" – 2:46
 
- "It's a Blue World" (George Forrest, Robert Wright) – 3:47
 
- "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) – 4:48
 
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 5:02
 
- "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 4:36
 
- "One I Could Have Loved" – 3:13
 
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 4:04
 
- "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
- Technical
 
- Robert Flynn – cover design
 
- Arthur Halpern – cover photography
 
- Nat Hentoff – liner notes
 
References
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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)
 
-  (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)
  
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Recordings with Al 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)
  
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With Quincy Jones |  | 
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With Gerry Mulligan |  | 
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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)
  
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