Long Yellow Road is the second album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. In 1976, the album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band. Long Yellow Road" is the title of two other albums by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1961) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet (1970). All music composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi except where noted. Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano. Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo.

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band – Autumn Sea. 7:49. Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band – Strive For Jive. Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band – Long Yellow Road (Long Yellow Road, 1976). Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin Big Band – Tuning Up. 5:50. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band – American Ballad. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band – Song for the Harvest. Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin Big Band – Chasing After Love.

Tracklist: 1. March Of The Tadpoles, 2. Mobile, 3. Deracinated Flower, 4. Yellow Is Mellow, 5. Notorious Tourist From East. More albums from Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band: Insights by Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. Kogun by Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. Tales Of A Courtesan (Oirantan) by Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. Road Time by Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. Live At Newport II by Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. Farewell by Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. Salted Gingko Nuts by Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band. View all albums . March Of The Tadpoles. By: Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band (1977, Jazz). 1. March Of The Tadpoles

The Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band recorded frequently during the 1970s, including several LPs for RCA, four of which are heard in part on this 1991 Novus CD compilation. Akiyoshi, a talented pianist who was recommended by Oscar Peterson to producer Norman Granz after he heard her during a tour of Japan in the '50s, proves herself an inventive composer/arranger whose charts don't use commonplace voicings. Though this excellent compilation is long out of print, most fans of the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band will want to acquire each of the four LPs (Insights, Kogun, Long Yellow Road, and Road Time) in their entirety, though that may be a bit more difficult and expensive.

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.

Filed under Progressive Big Band By TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI. A1 March Of The Tadpoles 6:54 A2 Mobile 5:20 A3 Deracinated Flower 8:14 B1 Yellow Is Mellow 8:53 B2 Notorious Tourist From East 7:35. A1: Soloist – Gary Foster Soloist – Bill Reichenbach Soloist – Lew Tabackin. A2: Soloist – Lew Tabackin. A3: Soloist – Dick Spencer Soloist – Bobby Shew Soloist – Lew Tabackin. Toshiko Akiyoshi Lew Tabackin Big band ORIG JAP LP March of the tadpoles NM Jazz.

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band – Farewell (To Mingus). Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band – Kogun. Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band – Shades of Yellow. Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin Big Band – Opus No. Zero. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band – Since Perry/Yet Another Tear. Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band – The First Night. Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin Big Band – Elusive Dreams.

Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology. The album was released in Japan in 1977 by Baystate. The album received two 1985 Grammy award nominations – for "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band" and for "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental" (for the song, "March of the Tadpoles"). All tracks from this album are also included on the 2008 Mosaic 3 CD compilation, Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band. All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi: LP side A. "March of the Tadpoles" – 6:54.