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''Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals'' (Japanese Title: ) was recorded by pianist
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 Tokyo in March 1961 and released by King Records in Japan. All tracks from this album as well as 1961's ''
Long Yellow Road (Trio)'' were later combined on a single album released by King Jazz as ''
1961 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, a History of King Jazz Recordings''.
Track listing
LP side A
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) – 10:50
#"
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (Brainin) – 5:00
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Donna Lee
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) – 5:50
LP side B
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Mariano
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) – 6:17
#"Old Pals" (
Akiyoshi) – 5:01
#"Watasu No Biethovin" (Akiyoshi) – 7:10
Personnel
*
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. ...
() – piano
*
Sadao Watanabe () – alto saxophone
*Akira Miyazawa () – tenor saxophone
*Masanaga Harada () – bass (tracks A1, 2, B2, 3)
*Hachiro Kurita () – bass (tracks A3, B1)
*Masahiko Togashi () – drums (tracks A1, 2)
*
Hideo Shiraki
Hideo Shiraki (; 1 January 1933, in Tokyo – 31 August 1972) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s. Famed earlier on for hard bop, he later explored world music and became a pioneer of fusing t ...
() – drums (tracks A3, B1)
*Takeshi Inomata () – drums (tracks B2, 3)
References / External links
*
Allmusic
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*King SKC-3
1961 albums
Toshiko Akiyoshi albums
King Records (Japan) albums
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