Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album)

Jazz Giant
Jazz Giant
Studio album by Benny Carter
Released	1958
Recorded	June 11, July 22 and October 7, 1957 and April 21, 1958
Studio	Contemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	38:44
Label	Contemporary
Producer	Lester Koenig
Benny Carter chronology

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
Source	Rating
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

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

Personnel

Benny Carter – alto saxophone, trumpet, arrangements
Frank Rosolino – trombone (tracks 1–4 & 6)
Ben Webster – tenor saxophone (tracks 1–4 & 6)
André Previn (tracks 1 & 4–7) – piano
Jimmy Rowles (tracks 2 & 3) – piano
Barney Kessel – guitar
Leroy Vinnegar – double bass
Shelly Manne – drums

References

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

[Contemporary_Records_discography-1] Contemporary Records discography accessed June 8, 2015

[2] Enciclopedia del Jazz: Benny Carter, accessed June 7, 2019

[Allmusic-3] Yanow, Scott. Jazz Giant – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 8, 2015.

[Penguin9-4] 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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v t e Benny Carter
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Alone Together (1952) Cosmopolite (1952–54) Benny Carter Plays Pretty (1954) New Jazz Sounds (and Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris, 1954) Urbane Jazz (and Roy Eldridge, 1955) Jazz Giant (1957–58) Swingin' the '20s (and Earl Hines, 1958) Further Definitions/Additions to Further Definitions (1961/1966) Carter, Gillespie Inc. (and Dizzy Gillespie]], 1976) Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson (1986) Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter (1986)
Songs	"Cow-Cow Boogie" (1942)