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| Studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi | ||||
| Released | 8 February 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 10, 12 December 2005 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 56:19 | |||
| Label | Nippon Crown | |||
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Hope is a jazz album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded by Nippon Crown Records in December, 2005 and released in 2006. [1] [2]
All songs composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi except as noted:
| "Hope (希望)" | |
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| Single by Toshiko Akiyoshi & Monday Michiru | |
| from the album Hope | |
| Released | 2006 December, Japan |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Nippon Crown |
| Songwriter(s) | Toshiko Akiyoshi |
| Lyricist(s) | Shuntarō Tanikawa, English translation by Monday Michiru. |
A CD single, "Hope (希望)" was also released by Nippon Crown and includes the title track version from the album with two new vocal versions - one in Japanese and one in English - sung by Akiyoshi's daughter, Monday Michiru. [3] [4] The composition "Hope" is the closing section of Akiyoshi's "Hiroshima: Rising from the Abyss" suite, first introduced on the 2001 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra album, Hiroshima - Rising From The Abyss . [5]
"Hope" composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese Lyrics by Shuntarō Tanikawa, vocals and English translation by Monday Michiru.
Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese–American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
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Hope is a CD single by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and singer Monday Michiru released in Japan on the Nippon Crown Record label. The instrumental version of the song "Hope" is from the 2006 Akiyoshi album of the same name. The composition "Hope" is the closing section of Akiyoshi's "Hiroshima: Rising from the Abyss" suite, first introduced on the 2001 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra album, Hiroshima - Rising From The Abyss.
希望 is a Japanese and Chinese term meaning "hope". It may refer to:
In Shanghai is a live concert recording made by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin in October, 2010 in Shanghai. An audio CD version was released by Pony Canyon in Japan in January, 2011 and a DVD video version was released in March of the same year. Although the New York-based Orchestra had officially disbanded in 2003, they have reformed on occasion to perform special tours and concerts like this one.
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