''Hope ()'' is a CD single by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and singer Monday Michiru released in Japan on the Nippon Crown Record label. The instrumental version of the song "Hope" is from the 2006 Akiyoshi album of the same name. The composition "Hope" is the closing section of Akiyoshi's "Hiroshima: Rising from the Abyss" suite, first introduced on the 2001 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra album, ''

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Formats and track listing

CD single CRCP-10157 #"Hope" – 3:37 (Japanese lyrics) #"Hope" – 3:30 (English lyrics) #"Hope" – 3:11 (instrumental version from the 2006 Toshiko Akiyoshi album '' Hope)'' "Hope" composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese Lyrics by

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, English translation by Monday Michiru.

Personnel

* Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano * Monday Michiru – vocal (tracks 1, 2)

References

Toshiko Akiyoshi songs 2006 singles 2006 songs {{2000s-Japan-single-stub Monday Michiru albums