This series primarily documents Sims’s professional life. Materials include correspondence, newspaper clippings of articles about Sims, contracts, and periodicals. Most of the correspondence concerns release rights, and requests for information about Zoot’s relationships with musicians such as Joe Venuti. Some of the correspondence is from a friend in Japan, who Sims probably met when the Zoot Sims Quartet toured Japan in 1979. The Zoot Sims Scholarship and his legacy at The New School are documented by news clippings and programs. The personal papers folder contains Sims’s diploma, Army discharge papers, and other materials. Materials in this series include items that Sims’s wife continued to collect after her husband’s death.