Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album)
{{about|the album by Benny Carter|the album by Bud Powell|Jazz Giant}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Jazz Giant
| type = studio
| artist = Benny Carter
| cover = Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album).jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1958}}
| recorded = June 11, July 22 and October 7, 1957, and April 21, 1958
| venue =
| studio = Contemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California
| genre = Jazz
| length = 38:44
| label = Contemporary
| producer = Lester Koenig
| chronology = Benny Carter
| prev_title = Urbane Jazz
| prev_year = 1955
| next_title = Swingin' the '20s
| next_year = 1958
}}
Jazz Giant is an album by saxophonist Benny Carter, recorded in 1957 and 1958 and released by Contemporary Records.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/contemporary-records/catalog-3500-7500-series/#c-3555 Contemporary Records discography] accessed June 8, 2015[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/benny-carter/ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Benny Carter], accessed June 7, 2019
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}
| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz
| rev2Score = {{rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |author-link=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=229 }}
}}
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.'"{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000187817 |title=Jazz Giant – Review |accessdate=June 8, 2015}} 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".
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