This article is about the album by Bud Powell. For the album by Benny Carter, see Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album).
1950 studio album by Bud Powell
Jazz Giant
Studio album by
Bud Powell
Released
1950
Recorded
February 23, 1949, February 1950
Genre
Jazz
Length
40:14
Label
Norgran / Verve
Producer
Norman Granz
Bud Powell chronology
Jazz Giant (1950)
The Amazing Bud Powell (1952)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
Allmusic
[1]
All About Jazz
(favorable)[2]
Jazz Giant is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released on Norgran in 1950, featuring two sessions that Powell recorded for Norman Granz in 1949 and 1950.
The album was remastered and re-released on CD in 2001 by Verve as a Verve Master Edition. The sessions also appear on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) box set.
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