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Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1983 Album)
''Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio'' is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1983. It was released on the Toshiba / EMI East World record label. This recording is not to be confused with the 1956 Storyville recording ''The Toshiko Trio''. Track listing LP side A #"Heartache" – 5:25 #"Nancy" – 6:38 #" Love is a Many Splendored Thing" – 5:50 LP side B #"Feast in Milano" – 6:32 #"Come Sunday" – 4:08 #"Hey There" – 8:15 Personnel * Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano *Gene Cherico – bass * Joey Baron – drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ... References / External links * Toshiba East World EWJ-90022, Toshiba East World TOCT-9731 Toshiko Akiyoshi albums 1983 albums {{1980s-jazz-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiko Akiyoshi
is a Japanese–American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in ''Down Beat'' magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, she was the subject of the documentary '' Jazz Is My Native Language''. In 1996, she published her autobiography, ''Life with Jazz'', and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. Biography Akiyoshi was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria, to Japanese colonists, the youngest of four sisters. In 1945, after World War II, Akiyoshi's family lost their home and returned to Japan, settling in Beppu. A local record collector introduced her to jazz by playing a record of Teddy Wilson playing "Sweet Lorraine." She immediately loved the sound and began to study jazz. In 1952, during a tour of Japan, pianist Oscar Peterson discovered her playing in a club on the Ginza. Peterson was impressed and convinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuttie Flutie
''Tuttie Flutie'' is a jazz album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ... recorded by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio with a flute quartet. It was released in 1980 on the Discomate (Japan) record label. Track listing :All songs arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi. All songs composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi except as noted: LP side A #"Tuttie Flutie" – 5:14 #"Falling Petal" ( Tabackin) – 5:27 #" Manhã De Carnaval" ( Bonfá) – 5:23 LP side B #"Blue Dream" – 8:33 #"Chic Lady" – 5:58 #"Last Minute Blues" – 4:03 Personnel * Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano *Bob Bowman – bass * Joey Baron – drums *Louise diTullio – flute *Geraldine Rotella – flute * Monday (Michiru Akiyoshi) Mariano – flute *Susan Greenberg – flute References / External Links *Discomate DSP-8107 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Stream (Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Album)
''Time Stream'' is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in New York in 1984. It was released on the Toshiba East World record label. This album is not to be confused with the 1996 Nippon Crown release, '' Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko''. Track listing LP side A #"Prosperity" ( Akiyoshi) – 5:09 #" Con Alma" ( Gillespie) – 6:20 #"Giant Steps" ( Coltrane) – 6:22 LP side B #" Smile" (Chaplin, Turner, Parsons) – 6:26 #"Time Stream" (Akiyoshi) – 6:31 #" Tico Tico" ( de Abreu, Oliveira, Drake) – 5:29 Personnel * Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano * George Mraz – bass * Arthur Taylor – drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ... References / external links * Toshiba East World EWJ-90034, Toshiba East World TOCT-9732 Toshiko Akiyoshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storyville Records (George Wein's) in Boston in the 1950s. It is not related to the Danish record label of the same name.
Storyville Records was a jazz record company and label founded by George Wein George Wein (October 3, 1925 – September 13, 2021) was an American jazz promoter, pianist, and producer. References birkajazz.com "Various US labels, Part 3" American record labels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Toshiko Trio
''The Toshiko Trio'' (a.k.a. ''George Wein Presents Toshiko'') is a jazz record album recorded in 1956 in New York City and released on the Storyville record label. It is the second studio recording of pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi - not to be confused with her 1983 Toshiba East World album, '' Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio''. Track listing :All compositions by Toshiko Akiyoshi except as noted: LP side A #"Between Me and Myself" – 5:15 #" It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:55 #"Kyōshū" (''"Nostalgia"'') – 3:39 #"Homework" – 3:38 LP side B #"Manhattan Address" – 2:43 #"Sunday Afternoon" – 4:15 #"Blues for Toshiko" – 5:10 #"Soshū No Yoru" (traditional) – 1:35 #" Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Hammerstein, Romberg) – 4:05 Personnel *Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano *Paul Chambers – bass *Ed Thigpen Edmund Leonard Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LP Record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk. Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, it remained the standard format for record albums (during a period in popular music known as the album era) until its gradual replacement from the 1980s to the early 2000s, first by cassettes, then by compact discs, and finally by digital music distribution. Beginning in the late 2000s, the LP has experienced a resurgence in popularity. Format advantages At the time the LP was introduced, nearly all phonograph records for home use were made of an abrasive shellac compound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (song)
"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" is a popular song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song appeared first in the movie '' Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing'' (1955), and it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1956. From 1967 to 1973, it was also used as the theme song to '' Love is a Many Splendored Thing'', the soap opera based on the movie. Many versions of the song have been released. The best-selling version was recorded by The Four Aces, whose recording reached number two in the UK Singles Chart, and number one on both the '' Billboard'' and ''Cash Box'' charts in 1955. Background The music was commissioned for the movie '' Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing'' and included in the film's Oscar-winning score, composed and conducted by Alfred Newman. It was initially only composed as background music for the film, lyrics were subsequently added to make it eligible for the Best Original Song category of the Academy Awards. The original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on the keys: the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Cherico
Eugene Valentino Cherico (April 15, 1935, Buffalo, New York – August 12, 1994, Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz double-bassist. Cherico played drums as a child and played in a special services band in the Army, but injured his hand and picked up double bass as therapy. He attended the Berklee College of Music, where he met Toshiko Akiyoshi, with whom he would tour and record intermittently for many years. He also worked as a sideman with Herb Pomeroy (1957–59), Maynard Ferguson (1959–60), Red Norvo (1961), Benny Goodman (1962), George Shearing (1963), Stan Getz (1964–66), and Peter Nero (1966–70). He also recorded with Gary Burton and Joe Morello in 1961 and with Paul Desmond in 1961 and 1963. Cherico spent much of the 1970s as a studio musician, working with Frank Strazzeri (1973, 1975), Louie Bellson, Lew Tabackin, Gerry Mulligan (1974), and Akiyoshi playing mostly bass guitar. He also did work as an accompanist to singers such as Peggy Lee (1966), Carme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
