Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band album)

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Long Yellow Road
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Studio album by
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Released1975
RecordedApril 4, 1974 – March 4, 1975
StudioSage & Sound Studio, Hollywood, California
Genre Jazz
Length42:30
Label Victor (Japan), RCA Victor (U.S.)
Producer Hiroshi Isaka
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology
Kogun
(1974)		Long Yellow Road
(1975)		 Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan)
(1976)
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Long Yellow Road is the second album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was named Best Jazz Album of the year by Stereo Review magazine. [3] In 1976, the album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band.

Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

The Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band was a 16 piece jazz big band created by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and tenor saxophone/flutist Lew Tabackin in Los Angeles in 1973. In 1982 the principals moved from Los Angeles to New York City and re-formed the group with new members under the name, The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. Akiyoshi arranged all of the music for the band and composed nearly all of the music recorded by the two groups over a 30-year period. Tabackin served as the bands' featured soloist on tenor saxophone and flute. The groups recorded 13 albums, toured in North America, Japan and Europe and, after the move to New York, had regular performances at the jazz club Birdland before disbanding in 2003. The bands' recordings received several Grammy nominations and regularly scored high in Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls.

Contents

"Long Yellow Road" is the title of two other albums by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1961) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet (1970).

<i>Long Yellow Road</i> (Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio album) 1961 studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi

Long Yellow Road and the nearly identical release, Tosiko Akiyosi Recital [sic] is a jazz trio recording made by the pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo in February 1961.

<i>Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan</i> 1970 live album by Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan is an album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded at the Osaka Expo Hall in Osaka, Japan in 1970 and released by Toshiba Records. It is not to be confused with other similarly titled releases by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio and the Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band.

Track listing

All music composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi except where noted.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Long Yellow Road"6:30
2."The First Night""4:58
3."Opus No. Zero"10:10
Side B
No.TitleLength
4."Quadrille, Anyone"6:25
5."Children in the Temple Ground"5:32
6."Since Perry/Yet Another Tear" (Lew Tabackin)8:55


Personnel

Lew Tabackin American musician

Lewis Barry Tabackin is an American jazz flautist and tenor saxophonist. He is married to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi with whom he has co-led large ensembles since the 1970s.

John Madrid was a jazz and pop trumpeter, active mainly from 1965 to 1987. He is noted for his remarkable accuracy and power in the upper register, but he was also capable of playing tasteful jazz solos in the middle register.

Mike Price is a jazz trumpeter and composer from the Chicago area. In the late 1960s Price toured and recorded with major big bands including those of Stan Kenton and Buddy Rich. Price was also an original member of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band in Los Angeles and performed on all of the band's Grammy-nominated recordings of the 1970s and early 1980s.

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References

  1. ↑ Yanow, Scott. "Long Yellow Road". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 7. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ "Toshiko Akiyoshi". NEA. 24 January 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2018.


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