Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album)

This article is about the album by Benny Carter. For the album by Bud Powell, see Jazz Giant.
Jazz Giant
Studio album by
Benny Carter
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)

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

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. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Jazz Giant – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.