Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band is a jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 recorded in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 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...

 (then Toshiko Mariano) in July 1964 and released in the US on the Vee-Jay Records

Vee-Jay Records

Vee-Jay Records is a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans.-History:...

 label. It was also released on the Nippon Columbia

Columbia Music Entertainment

is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as . It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks in 1931. The company changed its name to Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. in 1946. It used the Nippon Columbia name until...

 label in Japan under the title, Toshiko and Modern Jazz. In addition to the 4 big band

Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...

 arrangements featuring a full 16 piece jazz orchestra, there are also three smaller combo tracks on this album.

Track listing

1. "Kisarazu Jinku" (traditional. Arrangement: 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...
   
   ) – 5:10
2. "Lament" (Johnson) – 4:42
3. "The Shout" (Mariano
   Charlie Mariano
   Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....
   
   ) – 5:45
4. "Israel" (Carisi. Arrangement: Mariano) – 4:03
5. "Land of Peace" (Feather
   Leonard Feather
   Leonard Geoffrey Feather was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 4:18
6. "Walkin'" (Carpenter) – 4:53
7. "Santa Barbara" (Mariano) – 5:19

(Track order of the Vee Jay release shown. Track order on the Nippon Columbia release = 3, 2, 1, 7, 5, 6, 4)

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
• Paul Chambers
  Paul Chambers
  Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was a jazz bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, intonation, and virtuosic...
  
   – bass
• Jimmy Cobb
  Jimmy Cobb
  -External links:* - includes full discography* * * * * * *...
  
   – drums
• Akira Miyazawa (宮沢昭) – tenor saxophone (all tracks except 2, "Lament")
• Hidehiko ('Sleepy') Matsumoto (松本英彦) – tenor saxophone (all tracks except 2, "Lament")
• Hiroshi Okazaki (岡崎広志) – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Shigeo Suzuki (鈴木重男) – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Tadayuki Harada (原田忠幸) – baritone saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Hisao Mori (森寿男) – trumpet (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Shigeru Takemura (竹村茂) – trumpet (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Tetsuo Fushimini (伏見哲夫) – trumpet (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Terumasa Hino
  Terumasa Hino
  is a Japanese jazz trumpeter. Currently based in New York, Hino is widely acknowledged as one of Japan's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet and flügelhorn.-Biography:...
  
  (日野皓正) – trumpet (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Hiroshi Suzuki (鈴木弘) – trombone (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7)
• Mitsuhiko Matsumoto (松本文彦) – trombone (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Teruhiko Kataoka (片岡輝彦) – trombone (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)
• Takeshi Aoki (青木武) – trombone (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7)