The Giants of Jazz | |
Type: | Live album |
Artist: | Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt and Kai Winding |
Cover: | The Giants of Jazz (album).jpg |
Released: | 1972 |
Recorded: | November 14, 1971 |
Venue: | Victoria Theatre, London |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 90:32 |
Label: | Atlantic |
Producer: | George Wein |
Chronology: | Dizzy Gillespie |
Prev Title: | Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert |
Prev Year: | 1971 |
Next Title: | The Giant |
Next Year: | 1972 |
The Giants of Jazz is a live album of an English concert recorded at Victoria Theatre in London in two concerts on the same date, November 14, 1971, by Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, and Kai Winding, who were billed as The Giants of Jazz. The album was released by the Atlantic.[1]
The Allmusic review called the album "A historic and superlative set".[2]