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Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio - A Tribute To Billy Strayhorn album

Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio - A Tribute To Billy Strayhorn album

  • Performer: Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Title: A Tribute To Billy Strayhorn
  • Released: 1980
  • Country: Japan
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Description

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. Track listing - LP side A - "Heartache" – 5:25.

Singer: Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio. Title: A Tribute To Billy Strayhorn.

Farewell (to Mingus) - Toshiko Akiyoshi Lew Tabackin Big Band 1980 HQ from the album Farewell to Mingus. Tribute to Charles Mingus.

Recorded April 3, 4 & 5, 1978 Sage & Sound Recording Studio Hollywood, California.

Long Yellow Road and the nearly identical release, Tosiko Akiyosi Recital is a jazz trio recording made by the pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo in February 1961. A total of five tracks were recorded at a 1961 February 'recital' in Tokyo and were released by Asahi Sonorama and King Records in various formats and combinations at various times. The first track released, "Solveig's Song", was distributed in Japan as a "sonosheet" (.

Tribute to Billy Strayhorn. One of pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi's infrequent trio dates (she was becoming quite well-known during the era as an arranger and big bandleader), this out-of-print but quite rewarding album features Akiyoshi interpreting eight Billy Strayhorn compositions. Five songs feature her joined by bassist John Heard and drummer Peter Donald, while the remaining three tunes utilize bassist Bob Daugherty and drummer Jeff Hamilton. Highlights of the high-quality set include "Take the 'A' Train," "Rain Check" and "Intimacy of the Blues

Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1983. LP side A. "Heartache" – 5:25. Love is a Many Splendored Thing" – 5:50. LP side B. "Feast in Milano" – 6:32.

Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn. 1978 studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi. Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn. Studio album by. Toshiko Akiyoshi. Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn (also released as A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn (JAM) and Dedications III (Alfa)) is a jazz album recorded by two different configurations of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio in 1978. It was released on the Discomate record label (and later by Alfa Records) in Japan and on the JAM Record label in the USA. Track listing. All songs composed by Billy Strayhorn except "Day Dream," composed by Strayhorn and Duke Ellington: LP side A. "Take the "A" Train" – 4:53.

The jazz trio album Dedications was recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Los Angeles in July 1976 and was released by Discomate Records in Japan. This recording is not to be confused with the 1977 Inner City Records (USA) release of the same name, Dedications, which was also released by Discomate in Japan, but under the title Dedications II. Dedications (Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio).

Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉 敏子 or 穐吉 敏子 Akiyoshi Toshiko, born 12 December 1929) is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. She has received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1996, she published her autobiography, Life with Jazz, and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the .

Tracklist

A1 Take The 'A' Train 4:53
A2 Day Dream 2:59
A3 Rain Check 5:28
A4 Lotus Blossom 3:54
B1 Charpoy 5:22
B2 Lush Life 3:52
B3 Chelsea Bridge 4:32
B4 Intimacy Of The Blues 6:26

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – Sage & Sound

Credits

  • Art Direction – Frank B. Merritt
  • Bass – Bob Daughtery (tracks: A3, A4, B4), John Heard (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3)
  • Drums – Jeff Hamilton (tracks: A3, A4, B4), Peter Donald (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3)
  • Engineer – James Mooney
  • Illustration [Portrait] – Jeff Donaldson
  • Liner Notes – Hollie West*
  • Piano – Toshiko Akiyoshi
  • Producer – Toshiko Akiyoshi

Notes

Recorded April 3, 4 & 5, 1978
Sage & Sound Recording Studio
Hollywood, California

JazzAmerica Marketing
Suite 300
1737 De Sales St., N.W.
Washington, DC 200036

Licensed by Discomate Recordings Co., Ltd. of Japan.

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
DSP-5011 Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn ‎(LP, Album) Discomate DSP-5011 Japan 1978
DSP-3019 Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn ‎(LP, Album, RE) Discomate DSP-3019 Japan 1982