Giants (Dizzy Gillespie album)

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Giants
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Live album by Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hackett and Mary Lou Williams
Released 1971
Recorded January 31, 1971
Overseas Press Club, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length49:16
Label Perception
PLP 19
Producer Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Portrait of Jenny
(1970) Portrait of Jenny1970		Giants
(1971)		 Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert
(1971) Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert1971

Giants (also released as Mary Lou Williams and the Trumpet Giants) is a live album by trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Bobby Hackett and pianist Mary Lou Williams recorded in 1971 and originally released on the Perception label. [1]

Dizzy Gillespie American jazz trumpeter

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

Bobby Hackett American jazz musician

Robert Leo Hackett was an American jazz musician who played trumpet, cornet, and guitar with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Hackett was a featured soloist on some of the Jackie Gleason mood music albums during the 1950s.

Mary Lou Williams American pianist

Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records. Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "The music (seven standards) is generally quite melodic and swinging but the closer, a classic version of "My Man," steals the show. It is interesting to hear the contrast between the two brassmen. Hackett was always a very complementary player, so the combination works well". [2]

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Track listing

  1. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) - 8:22
  2. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 6:33
  3. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) - 6:19
  4. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Fats Waller) - 7:10
  5. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 5:23
  6. "Birk's Works" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 7:06
  7. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) - 8:23

Personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

George Duvivier American musician

George Duvivier was an American jazz double-bassist.

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References

  1. ↑ University of Idaho Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 12, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed April 12, 2012
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