''Toshiko – Her Trio, Her Quartet'' is a
jazz album recorded by pianist
Toshiko Akiyoshi in
New York
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, in 1956, and released on the
Storyville record label. The album cover artwork is taken from
Joan Miró
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's "Black and Red" series.
Track listing
LP side A
#"Kelo" (
J. J. Johnson
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Johnson was one of the earliest trombonists to embrace bebop.
Biograph ...
) – 4:20
#"Salute to Shorty" (Akiyoshi) – 3:06
#"Pea, Bee and Lee" (Akiyoshi) – 3:15
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Taking a Chance on Love
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Duke,
Latouche, Fetter) – 4:34
LP side B
#"
All the Things You Are
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The song was written for the musical ''Very Warm for May'' (1939) " (
Kern) – 4:32
#"
No Moon at All" (
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,
Mann
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) – 4:52
#"
I'll Remember April" (
DePaul,
Raye, Johnston) – 5:30
#"
Thou Swell
"Thou Swell" is a show tune, a popular song and a jazz standard written in 1927.
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Hart) – 4:55
Personnel
Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7:
*
Toshiko Akiyoshi –
piano
*
Boots Mussulli –
alto saxophone
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*
Ed Thigpen –
drums
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Wyatt Ruther
Wyatt Robert "Bull" Ruther (February 5, 1923, Pittsburgh – October 31, 1999, San Francisco) was an American jazz double-bassist.
Ruther played trombone in high school before picking up the double-bass. He studied at the San Francisco Conservat ...
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bass
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Tracks 3, 6, 8:
*
Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*
Roy Haynes – drums
*
Oscar Pettiford – bass
References
*Storyville STLP-918
External links
Time magazine review, 1958 January
Toshiko Akiyoshi albums
1956 albums
Storyville Records (George Wein's) albums
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