Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album)

Jazz Giant is an album by saxophonist Benny Carter that was recorded in 1957 and 1958 and released by Contemporary Records.[1][2]

Jazz Giant
Studio album by
Released1958 (1958)
RecordedJune 11, July 22 and October 7, 1957 and April 21, 1958
StudioContemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California
GenreJazz
Length38:44
LabelContemporary
ProducerLester Koenig
Benny Carter chronology
Urbane Jazz
(1955)
Jazz Giant
(1958)
Swingin' the '20s
(1958)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]

At Allmusic, Scott Yanow called the album a "particularly strong septet session" and stated, "This timeless music is beyond the simple categories of 'swing' or 'bop' and should just be called 'classic.'"[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote that the album "is a terrific small-group record, full of imagination and invention, and the interchanges with Webster are classic".[4]

Track listing

  1. "Old Fashioned Love" (James P. Johnson, Cecil Mack) - 7:51
  2. "I'm Coming Virginia" (Will Marion Cook, Donald Heywood) - 5:48
  3. "A Walkin' Thing" (Carter) - 6:00
  4. "Blue Lou" (Irving Mills, Edgar Sampson) - 4:58
  5. "Ain't She Sweet" (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen) - 3:40
  6. "How Can You Lose" (Carter) - 6:13
  7. "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me" (Charles McCarron, Russ Morgan, Arthur Swanstrom) - 4:39

Personnel

References

  1. Contemporary Records discography accessed June 8, 2015
  2. Enciclopedia del Jazz: Benny Carter, accessed June 7, 2019
  3. Yanow, Scott. Jazz Giant – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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