Long Yellow Road is the second recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

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 and re-formed the group with new members under the name,...

. The album was nominated for a 1976 Grammy award in the category, "Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band" and was named "Jazz album of the year" by Stereo Review magazine.

All tracks from this album are also included on the 2008 Mosaic

Mosaic Records

Mosaic Records is an American specialist jazz record label, founded in 1983 by Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie to issue coherent limited edition box sets of jazz recordings by individual musicians, which had fallen out-of-print...

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

Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band

Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band is a 3 CD compilation album released by Mosaic Records in October 2008 and is composed of the first five studio albums recorded by the LA-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band...

.

Long Yellow Road is also the title of two other Akiyoshi recordings by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio

Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio)

Long Yellow Road and the nearly identical release, Tosiko Akiyosi Recital [sic] is a jazz trio recording made by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo in February 1961.-Release history:...

 (1961) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet

Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan

Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan is an album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded at the Osaka Expo Hall in Osaka, Japan in 1970 and released by Toshiba Records...

 (1970).

Track listing

All arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko 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 "Yet Another Tear" (Tabackin

Lew Tabackin

Lew 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:...

).

LP

LP record

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

 side A

1. "Long Yellow Road" – 6:30
2. "The First Night" – 4:58
3. "Opus No. Zero" – 10:10

LP side B

1. "Quadrille, Anyone?" – 6:25
2. "Children in the Temple Ground" – 5:32
3. "Since Perry" / "Yet Another Tear" – 8:55

Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi
  Toshiko 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...
  
   – piano
• Lew Tabackin
  Lew Tabackin
  Lew 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, piccolo
• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone, alto flute, clarinet
• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Gary Foster – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet (except on "Opus No. Zero")
• Joe Roccisano
  Joe Roccisano
  Joseph Lucian "Joe" Roccisano was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger.Roccisano received his BS in music education from SUNY-Potsdam in 1963...
  
   – alto saxophone (on "Opus No. Zero")
• Bill Perkins
  Bill Perkins (saxophonist)
  Bill Perkins was a cool jazz saxophonist and flutist popular on the West Coast jazz scene, known primarily as a tenor saxophonist. Born in San Francisco, California, Perkins started out performing in the big bands of Woody Herman and Jerry Wald. He also worked for the Stan Kenton orchestra, which...
  
   – Baritone saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet
• Bobby Shew
  Bobby Shew
  -Biography:After leaving college in 1960, Shew was drafted into the U.S. Army and played trumpet with the NORAD band in Colorado Springs and on tour. After leaving the Army, Shew joined Tommy Dorsey's band and then played with the Woody Herman and then the Buddy Rich Big Bands in the mid-to-late...
  
   – trumpet
• John Madrid
  John Madrid
  John Madrid was a jazz and pop trumpet player, active mainly from the 1960s to the 1980s. He is noted for his remarkable accuracy and power in the upper register but he was also capable of playing tasteful jazz solos in the middle register.Madrid grew up in an east Los Angeles suburb, Montebello,...
  
   – trumpet (on "Long Yellow Road")
• Stu Blumberg – trumpet (on "The First Night", Opus No. Zero" and "Children in the Temple Ground")
• Lynn Nicholson – trumpet (on "Quadrille Anyone?" and "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear")
• Don Rader
  Don Rader
  Don Rader is an American jazz trumpeter.Rader began on trumpet at age five, taught initially by his father...
  
   – trumpet
• Mike Price
  Mike Price (jazz trumpeter)
  Mike Price is a jazz trumpeter and composer from the Chicago area. In the late 1960s Price toured and recorded with major big bands including those of Stan Kenton and Buddy Rich...
  
   – trumpet
• Charlie Loper – trombone
• Jim Sawyer – trombone (on "Long Yellow Road")
• Bruce Paulson – trombone (except on "Long Yellow Road")
• Britt Woodman
  Britt Woodman
  Britt Woodman was a jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known for his work with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus....
  
   – trombone
• Phil Teele – bass trombone
• Gene Cherico
  Gene Cherico
  Eugene Valentino "Gene" Cherico was an American jazz double-bassist....
  
   – bass
• Peter Donald – drums (except on "Opus No. Zero" and "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear")
• Chuck Flores
  Chuck Flores
  Chuck Flores is an American jazz drummer. One of the relatively small number of musicians associated with West Coast jazz who are actually from the West Coast, Flores was born Charles Walter Flores in Orange, California, and grew up in Santa Ana...
  
  – drums (on "Opus No. Zero" and "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear")

Guest

• Tokuko Kaga – vocal (on "Children in the Temple Ground")