Jazz Giant

Artist: Benny Carter
Label: Ojc
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025218616720
EAN: 0025218616720
ASIN: B000000Y9J

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

Old Fashioned Love
I'm Coming Virginia
A Walkin' Thing
Blue Lou
Ain't She Sweet
How Can You Lose
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me

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Customer Reviews:

Nirvana.......2004-11-09

I bought this because I like Benny Carter and I love the sound that Roy DuNann got at the Contemporary studios in LA. I had no idea that Ben Webster was on this session. I thought I had all the great Ben Webster, so this is a major find. In addition Jimmy Rowles, one of the great jazz piano guys of all time, Barney Kessel and Shelly Manne join Mr Carter. This is a must have for all 50s jazz fans. Simply an amazing CD.

Superb.......2004-09-16

This album was released at the end of the 50's and blends a little of the new jazz from that era (bop), with a hint of big band sound (incorporates more than a half dozen musicians on some tracks), but mostly a lot of the traditional roots. Benny Carter is probably one of the most talented Jazz musicians of all time because he was highly capable in several areas: able to play a variety of instruments, and highly successful at promoting, managing, and composing. This album is just one notch in Benny's many contributions to Jazz music and a very noteworthy notch.

Giant jazz album indeed!.......2002-02-10

Everything here is great, but the first track took a couple listens to grown on me, while most of the other tracks had me going "wow!" the very first time I heard them.

A Gathering of "Jazz Giants".......2000-09-02

"Jazz Giant" is an appropriately titled album. Benny Carter is definitely one, having been in the jazz limelight at the time of this recording (1957-58) for more than twenty years. But what makes "Jazz Giant" special is that Carter's bandmates are giants in their own right -- Ben Webster, Shelly Manne, Barney Kessel, Leroy Vinnegar and Andre Previn (in the days before he became a giant of classical music). There is also trombonist Frank Rosolino, a giant talent and a casualty of the jazz lifestyle, who was sadly underrepresented on album but holds his own easily with these other greats. (Those curious about Rosolino would be well served to check out his OJC CD "Free For All.") In terms of the album's songs, there are two Carter originals, "A Walkin' Thing" and "How Can You Lose," and five standards. A final note, Benny Carter trades in his alto sax for trumpet on two tracks, and Andre Previn is replaced by Jimmy Rowles on a couple of numbers. Simply put "Jazz Giant" is one of the best straight ahead albums in all mainstream jazz.

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