Zoot Sims featuring Jim Hall: The Bossa Nova Sessions (Colpix/Westside)
Another set of albums originally done to cash in on the bossa nova craze. The music can sound a bit samey listened to in one sitting, but there are many good moments.
It might have come off better if you had said that Lion perhaps chose other drummers because their playing was more aggressive or "forceful", as you now put it, than saying that the usual BN drummers had had more cojones than Cobb did.
Maxwell Davis, Charles Mingus, and Lee Young were among the members of a basketball team called the Sweet 'n' Hot in Los Angeles in the early to mid 40's.