Interlude (Toshiko Akiyoshi album)

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Interlude
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Released1987
RecordedFebruary 1987
VenueCoast Recorders, San Francisco
Genre Jazz
Length40:06
Label Concord Jazz
Producer Carl E. Jefferson
Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
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(1984)
Interlude
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(1990)
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Interlude is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in San Francisco in 1987. It was released on the Concord Jazz record label.

Contents

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Interlude" (Akiyoshi) – 4:37
  2. "I Know Who Loves You" (Akiyoshi) – 4:54
  3. "Blue and Sentimental" (Basie, Livingston, David) – 4:49
  4. "I Ain't Gonna Ask No More" (Akiyoshi) – 5:35

LP side B

  1. "Pagliacci" (Puccini) – 4:43
  2. "Solitude" (Ellington, DeLange, Mills) – 5:34
  3. "So in Love" (Porter) – 4:41
  4. "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Kahn, Brown) – 4:13

Personnel

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