Carnegie Hall Concert (Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra)
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Carnegie Hall Concert is the third recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. The album received a 1992 Grammy award
nomination in the category "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance."
. All songs composed by Akiyoshi except as noted:
Guest
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nomination in the category "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance."
Track listing
All arrangements by AkiyoshiToshiko Akiyoshi
is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...
. All songs composed by Akiyoshi except as noted:
- (spoken introductions of band members) – 0:54
- "Children of the Universe" – 16:42
- "I Know Who Loves You" – 8:19
- "After Mr. Teng" – 9:33
- "Your Beauty is a Song of Love" (WessFrank WessFrank Wess is an American jazz musician, who has played saxophone and flute.-Biography:...
) – 6:41 - "Kourakan Suite" – 21:00
- Part 1: "Kourakan"
- Part 2: "Prayer"
- "Chasing After Love" – 9:22
- "How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?" – 4:09
Personnel
- Toshiko AkiyoshiToshiko Akiyoshiis a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...
– piano - Lew TabackinLew TabackinLew Tabackin is a jazz flautist and a tenor saxophonist. He is married to Toshiko Akiyoshi, who is a jazz pianist and a composer/arranger.-Biography:...
– tenor saxophone, flute - Frank WessFrank WessFrank Wess is an American jazz musician, who has played saxophone and flute.-Biography:...
– alto saxophone, flute - Jim SnideroJim SnideroJim Snidero is an American jazz saxophonist.Snidero studied at the University of North Texas before moving to New York City in 1981. After touring with Jack McDuff, he joined Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra in the early 1980s in New York, working in the group for twenty years...
– alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet, piccolo - Walt Weiskopf – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet,
- Scott RobinsonScott Robinson (jazz musician)Scott Robinson is an American jazz musician. Robinson is best known for his work with various styles of saxophone, but has also performed with the clarinet, flute, and sarrusophone, along with other, more obscure instruments....
– baritone saxophone, bass clarinet - Freddie HubbardFreddie HubbardFrederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
– trumpet - Mike Ponella – trumpet
- John Eckert – trumpet
- Greg GisbertGreg GisbertGregory Lyle Gisbert is an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.- Early years and school :Gisbert played drums with his father as a child. He moved with his family to Denver in 1971...
– trumpet - Joe Magnarelli – trumpet
- Herb Besson – trombone
- Conrad HerwigConrad HerwigConrad Herwig is a jazz trombonist from New York City in the United States. He has recorded 20 albums as a leader.-Biography:He began his career in Clark Terry's band in the early 1980s and has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Tom Harrell’s Septet and Big Band, and the Joe...
– trombone - Larry Ferrel – trombone
- Matt FindersMatt FindersMatt Finders is an American trombonist based in Southern California. A former member of The Tonight Show Band, he has played with various big bands and in major musical productions on Broadway. Though Finders has worked in many genres, his primary focus is on jazz...
– bass trombone - Peter Washington – bass
- Terry Clarke – drums
Guest
- Nnenna FreelonNnenna FreelonNnenna Freelon, , is an American jazz singer, composer, producer, and arranger. She has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for her vocal work, and has performed and toured with such top artists as Ray Charles, Ellis Marsalis, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Dianne Reeves, Diana Krall,...
– Vocal (Kourakan Suite Part 2, "Prayer")