Chic Lady

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Chic Lady
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Studio album by
Released1991
Recorded15, 16 November 1991
Genre Jazz
Length43:34
Label Nippon Crown
Producer Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream
(1990)
Chic Lady
(1991)
Dig
(1993)

Chic Lady is a jazz album recorded by American musician Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1991 and released on the Nippon Crown record label.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "My Elegy" (Akiyoshi) – 6:15
  2. "Travelin'" (Lewis) – 4:09
  3. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington) – 6:01
  4. "Chic Lady" (Akiyoshi) – 7:30
  5. "Don't be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too" (Mingus) – 5:18
  6. "Lady Liberty" (Akiyoshi) – 4:16
  7. "Blue Bossa" (Dorham) – 5:01
  8. "No Due Blues" (Tabackin) – 5:04

Personnel



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