Even Stravinsky, the century's musical giant, is ignored.

Every single song on the record is dedicated to someone, or some musical giant that I loved.

To be sure, he had personal contact with musical giants from each of these traditions.

For me it is a marvelous segue from one musical giant to another.

To foster such an exercise, I offer a short and glaringly incomplete list of musical giants, seen from both old and new perspectives.

Max Roach is part of this serious hierarchy of musical giants.

Serge Koussevitzky was one of the musical giants of the 20th century.

And, as befits a musical giant, his life story - one that has long eluded Hollywood - appears finally to be headed for the big screen.

When it comes to conjuring the essence of a past musical giant, nothing beats having had an intimate personal connection with the subject.

Even so, the invention of bluegrass was without doubt an important cultural event, very probably significant enough to justify calling its inventor a musical giant.