The Giants of Jazz

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The Giants of Jazz was a jazz all-star group of the early 1970s which featured Art Blakey (drums), Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Al McKibbon (bass), Thelonious Monk (piano), Sonny Stitt (alto and tenor sax), and Kai Winding (trombone).{{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Giants of Jazz|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J167200}} They recorded albums for Atlantic Records, Concord Records. and Emarcy Records.{{Citation |title=Dizzy Gillespie - The Giants of Jazz Album Reviews, Songs & More {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-giants-of-jazz-mw0000346843 |access-date=2023-06-12 |language=en}} The group toured internationally in 1971-1972.{{cite journal|title=Giants of Jazz|work=Jazz Magazine |date= December 1971|pages= 22–31}} Their 1971 concert tour stops in the cities of Prague and Copenhagen were both filmed, and were subsequently released on separate DVDs in the 2000s.{{cite book|page=280|title=Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen|year=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199347674}}