| 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 a Japanese–American jazz pianist,composer,arranger,and bandleader.
Monday Michiru is a Japanese American actress,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.
Kogun is the first album recorded by the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi –Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was released in Japan by Victor in 1974 and received the Swing Journal Silver Disk prize for that year. It was later released on RCA Victor in the USA and elsewhere and received a 1979 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band.
From Toshiko With Love is the twelfth recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi –Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was released in Japan by Victor Records and in the U.S. by Jazz America Marketing –not to be confused with the 2002 Lew Tabackin Trio recording of the same name (Tanuki's Night Out). The album received two Grammy award nominations in 1981 for "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band" and "Best Arrangement of an Instrumental Recording".
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.
European Memoirs is the tenth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi –Lew Tabackin Big Band. Akiyoshi was nominated for a 1983 Grammy award in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category for the arrangement of "Remembering Bud" on this album. This would be the final recording of the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi –Lew Tabackin Big Band before the principals moved to New York City in 1982 and formed a new big band,the "Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin" that released nine more albums and two live performance videos before disbanding in 2003.
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.
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.
Jazz,The Personal Dimension is a jazz album recorded by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet in New York City in early February 1971 and released by Victor (Japan) Records.
Sumie is a jazz album recorded by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet in Tokyo in early March 1971 and released by Victor (Japan) Records. It is not to be confused with the 1979 release,Sumie by the Toshiko Akiyoshi –Lew Tabackin Big Band.
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.
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.
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.
Mosaic Select:Toshiko Akiyoshi –Lew Tabackin Big Band is a 3 CD compilation album released by Mosaic Records in October 2008 and is composed of the first five studio albums recorded by the LA-based Toshiko Akiyoshi –Lew Tabackin Big Band. It is volume 33 of the "Mosaic Select" series and includes the complete contents of the previously released RCA / Victor recordings,Kogun (1974),Long Yellow Road (1975),Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan) (1976),Insights (1976),and March of the Tadpoles (1977).
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.