The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson Explained

The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Zoot Sims, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Oscar Peterson
Cover:	The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson.jpg
Released:	2001
Recorded:	October 10–16, 1975
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Pablo
Producer:	Norman Granz

The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson is a 1975 live album by the tenor saxophonists Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, featuring the pianist Oscar Peterson.

Reception

Bill Holland, writing for Billboard, said "[w]alk up to a friend who likes...jazz", listed the personnel, then said "get ready for a major smile", and mentioned that "Davis plays Coleman Hawkins to Sims' Lester Young".^[1]

Ken Dryden's AllMusic review says that the album "was an inspired idea, because each of the two tenor saxophonists approach the instrument differently...highly recommended." He calls the rhythm section "a great one...providing plenty of fuel for the featured soloists."

Track listing

1. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 10:42
2. "My Old Flame" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 2:49
3. "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:11
4. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 8:17
5. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 5:32
6. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 9:03
7. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 7:32
8. "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 10:24

Personnel

Performance

• Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
• Oscar Peterson – piano
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – double bass
• Louie Bellson – drums

Production

• Norman Granz - producer
• Jamie Putnam - art direction
• Ted Williams - photography
• Deb Sibony - design

Notes and References

1. News: Reviews & Previews . Billboard . 7 April 2001 . 24 October 2014 . 18.