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Track listing

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Personnel

– piano *Yoshio Suzuki – bass *Motohiko Hino – drums

References

*Nippon Crown CRCJ-9154 *''Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Live at Blue Note Tokyo '97'' (a.k.a. ''Japanese Trio: Live 1997'') at

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