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| Jazz Conversations | ||||
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| Released | July 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 6, 7 January 2015 | |||
| Venue | New York | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Victor Entertainment | |||
| Producer | Monday Michiru, Lew Tabackin | |||
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Jazz Conversations,The Other Side of Monday Michiru is a 2015 recording by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and her daughter singer/flutist Monday Michiru,released in Japan by Victor Entertainment.
Toshiko Akiyoshi is an American jazz pianist,composer,arranger,and bandleader.
Monday Michiru is a Japanese American singer and songwriter whose music encompasses and fuses a wide variety of genres including jazz,dance,pop,and soul. She is arguably best known for being a pioneer of the acid jazz movement in Japan in the early 1990s yet she has created her own unique style of music that transcends traditional definitions of the aforementioned genres.
Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz saxophonist who focused on the alto and soprano saxophone. He occasionally performed and recorded on flute and nadaswaram as well.
Insights is the fourth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi –Lew Tabackin Big Band and was voted "Jazz Album of the Year" in the 1978 Down Beat magazine critic's poll. It received the Swing Journal magazine 1976 Gold Disk prize in Japan and was nominated for a 1978 Grammy award in the USA for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band.
Ten Gallon Shuffle is the first recording released by the New York–based Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. The composition Ten Gallon Shuffle was originally commissioned by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity for the University of Texas Jazz Orchestra.
Desert Lady / Fantasy is the fourth recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. Not to be confused with the 1989 Lew Tabackin (Quartet) Concord Records release,Desert Lady. The album received two Grammy award nominations in the "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance" and "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental" categories.
Monopoly Game is the sixth recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. The three tracks,"Kyoto Paradox",Caribbean Dream" and "Urban Rhapsody" make up the three part "Suite for Koto and Jazz Orchestra" commissioned jointly by the San Francisco Jazz Festival and UCLA. The song "Jazz Club" was commissioned by NHK Radio.
Tribute to Duke Ellington is a big band jazz album recorded in New York in 1999 and is the seventh recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. The first three tracks make up the "Tribute To Duke Ellington Suite" which was composed by Akiyoshi and commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Tuttie Flutie is a jazz album recorded by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio with a flute quartet. It was released in 1980 on the Discomate (Japan) record label.
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.
Remembering Bud:Cleopatra's Dream is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1990 as a tribute to jazz pianist Bud Powell and released on the Nippon Crown record label in Japan and on the Evidence label in the USA.
Night and Dream is a small jazz combo album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1994 and released by Nippon Crown Records.
Hope is a jazz album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded by Nippon Crown Records in December,2005 and released in 2006.
Shibuya Jazz Classics,Monday Michiru Collection,Toshiko Akiyoshi Issue is a compilation album of recordings by jazz pianist,composer,arranger and bandleader Toshiko Akiyoshi both in small combo and big band settings. The collection was compiled by Akiyoshi's daughter,Monday Michiru and released in Japan by Solid Records.
Best Gold,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.
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.
Since her debut recording for Norgran Records in 1954,jazz pianist,composer,arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi has recorded continually –almost exclusively as a leader of small jazz combos and of her big bands –averaging one studio album release per year for well over 50 years. She has also recorded several live albums in solo,small combo and big band settings,including three big band concert videos. Akiyoshi has released multiple albums for Victor / BMG,Nippon Columbia,Toshiba,Discomate,Nippon Crown and other labels in Japan and for Norgran / Verve,RCA,Columbia / Sony,Concord and her own Ascent label in the US. All of her big band recordings and nearly all of her other early works have been re-issued on CDs over the years.
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.
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.