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]

Waiting Game
Studio album by Zoot Sims
Released	1966
Recorded	November 28 & 30, 1966
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:05
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele, Gary McFarland
Zoot Sims chronology
New Beat Bossa Nova Vol. 2 (1962) Waiting Game (1966) Easy as Pie: Live at the West Bank (1968)

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

References