Jazz

Miles Davis is back for his annual Boston visitation, this time drawing crowds until Saturday night at Paul's Mail. Miles has spawned more than 50 records and a number of great musicians, including Coltrane, Shorter and Hancock, so it might be worth going simply to see who will make it big this year on the jazz circuit.

Tenor saxman Zoot Sims is still cranking out the same old ballads that he recorded about ten years ago. His latest album, Strike Up The Band, with Bobby Hackett, features some pleasant renditions of a couple of Gershwin warhorses, including "Embraceable You." Nothing really innovative there, however. But Sims is paired with Al Cohn over at Sandy's Jazz Revival and there is a good chance that he'll snap out of it, and play some of his own stuff. While you are there try to tell the difference between Sims and the great Lester Young. Through Saturday.