REISSUES : In Brief

* * * Zoot Sims, “Suddenly It’s Spring,” OJC. Like many other lyrical, gently swinging tenor players--among them Stan Getz and Al Cohn--Sims was a Woody Herman alumnus. He was in exquisite company on this 1983 date, with the simpatico piano of Jimmy Rowles, the impeccable bass of George Mraz and Akira Tana on drums. Production is inexcusably sloppy: Walter Donaldson’s “It’s Been So Long” is listed as “so long” and credited to Woody Guthrie! The Brahms “Lullaby” is billed as “Brahm’s . . . I Think.” The fact that Sims plays soprano, not tenor, on the Brahms track, is nowhere mentioned.