Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1983 album)

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Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio
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Released1983
Recorded27 May 1983
Venue Los Angeles
Genre Jazz
Length36:48
Label Toshiba East World
Producer Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
Tuttie Flutie
(1980)
Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio
(1983)
Time Stream
(1984)

Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1983. It was released on the Toshiba / EMI East World record label. This recording is not to be confused with the 1956 Storyville recording The Toshiko Trio .

Contents

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Heartache" – 5:25
  2. "Nancy" – 6:38
  3. "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" – 5:50

LP side B

  1. "Feast in Milano" – 6:32
  2. "Come Sunday" – 4:08
  3. "Hey There" – 8:15

Personnel



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