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recorded by the

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Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band The Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band was a 16 piece jazz big band created by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and tenor saxophone/flutist Lew Tabackin in Los Angeles in 1973. In 1982 the principals moved from Los Angeles to New York City a ...

. It was released in Japan by Victor in 1974 and received the Swing Journal Silver Disk prize for that year. It was later released on RCA Victor in the USA and elsewhere and received a 1979 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band. All tracks from this album are also included on the 2008

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3 CD compilation, '' Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band''.

Track listing

:All songs composed and arranged by

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. ...

LP side A #"Elegy" – 9:13 #"Memory" – 10:24 LP side B #"Kogun" – 6:49 #"American Ballad" – 5:49 #"Henpecked Old Man" – 9:08

Personnel

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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 keybo ...

Lew Tabackin Lewis Barry Tabackin (born March 26, 1940) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist. He is married to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi with whom he has co-led large ensembles since the 1970s. Biography Tabackin started learning flute at age ...

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

*Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone *Dick Spencer – alto saxophone * Gary Foster – alto saxophone * Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone * Bobby Shew –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* John Madrid – trumpet * Don Rader – trumpet * Mike Price – trumpet *Charles Loper –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

*Jim Sawyer – trombone * Britt Woodman – trombone *Phil Teele – bass trombone * Gene Cherico – bass *Peter Donald – drums Other *

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– voice (on "Memory")

References / external links

*RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-6246 *

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* 1974 Swing Journal (Japanese jazz magazine) Silver Disk award
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