The Giants (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = The Giants

| type = studio

| artist = Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown

| cover = TheGiantsJazz.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1977

| recorded = December 7, 1974

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 48:17

| label = Pablo

| producer = Norman Granz

| chronology = Oscar Peterson

| prev_title = Satch and Josh

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge

| next_year = 1974

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Joe Pass

| type = album

| prev_title = Portraits of Duke Ellington

| prev_year = 1974

| title = The Giants

| year = 1977

| next_title = Live at Donte's

| next_year = 1974

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r145443|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1154}}

}}

The Giants is a 1974 album featuring Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown. At the Grammy Awards of 1978, Peterson won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist for his performance on this album.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r145493|label=Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge}} It was reissued on CD in 1995 by Original Jazz Classics.

Track listing

  1. "Riff Blues" (Oscar Peterson) – 4:24
  2. "Who Cares?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:29
  3. "Jobim" (Joe Pass, Peterson) – 6:29
  4. "Blues for Dennis" (Peterson) – 5:31
  5. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) – 4:49
  6. "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) – 7:22
  7. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 6:34
  8. "Eyes of Love" (Quincy Jones, Bob Russell) – 6:53

Personnel

Chart positions

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Chart

!Position

1977

|Billboard Jazz Albums

|33

References