The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi
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The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a compilation album of songs taken from BMG Japan releases of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin.
. All songs composed by Akiyoshi except "Tanuki's Night Out" (Lew Tabackin
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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 and re-formed the group with new members under the name,...
and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin.
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All songs orchestrated by Toshiko 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 "Tanuki's Night Out" (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:...
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- "Long Yellow Road"
- "Kogun"
- "Elegy"
- "Quadrille, Anyone?"
- "Children in the Temple Ground"
- "Sumi-e"
- "Tanuki's Night Out"
- "Chasing After Love"
- "Duke For The Ages"