Toshiko at Mocambo

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Toshiko At Mocambo
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Live album by
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Released1954
Recorded27, 28 July 1954
VenueMocambo Club, Yokohama, Japan
Genre Jazz
Length49:16
Label Rockwell / Polydor
Producer Kiyoshi Iwami [1]
Shoichi Yui
Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
Toshiko's Piano
(1954)
Toshiko At Mocambo
(1954)
The Toshiko Trio
(1956)
3 CD compilation / re-issue
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Complete session

Toshiko at Mocambo (full title, Toshiko at Mocambo, The Historic Mocambo Session '54, Volume 3) was recorded by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi at the Mocambo club in Yokohama, Japan, in the summer of 1954. [2] All four tracks from this recording as well as additional tracks from the same all-night live session with and without Akiyoshi were released on the 3 CD Rockwell – Polydor / Universal album, The Complete Historic Mocambo Session '54 – including, reportedly, [3] a performance of "It's Only a Paper Moon" with Akiyoshi attempting to fill in on bass.

Contents

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Fine and Dandy" (Swift, James) – 15:11
  2. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Duke, Latouche, Fetter) – 8:52

LP side B

  1. "Donna Lee" (Parker) – 9:41
  2. "Air Conditioning" (Parker) – 15:32

Personnel

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References

  1. Atkins, E. Taylor (September 6, 2001). Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. Duke University Press. ISBN   9780822380030 via Google Books.
  2. Kirchner, Bill (July 14, 2005). The Oxford Companion to Jazz. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN   9780195183597 via Google Books.
  3. Liner notes from The Complete Historic Mocambo Sessions, '54 (rockwell-records.com)