Best Silver (Toshiko Akiyoshi)

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Best Silver
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Compilation album by Toshiko Akiyoshi
Released 1998
Recorded 1989 ~ 1996
Genre Jazz
Length42:37
Label Nippon Crown Records

Best Silver, Toshiko Akiyoshi '89~'96 is a compilation album released by Nippon Crown Records. It contains tracks taken from the first 7 Nippon Crown releases of jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in small combo settings.

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

Toshiko Akiyoshi Japanese American jazz musician

Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Cleopatra's Dream" – 6:31 (from Remembering Bud )
  2. "Summer Time" – 5:01 (from Four Seasons )
  3. "Dig" – 7:56 (from Dig )
  4. "Kogun" – 7:12 (from Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko )
  5. "When You Wish Upon A Star" – 6:22 (from Night and Dream )
  6. "Tico Tico" – 3:35 (from Yes, I Have No 4 Beat Today )
  7. "Sophisticated Lady" – 6:00 (from Chic Lady )

Personnel

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