Kogun

Infobox Album | Name = Kogun
Type = Album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band


Released = 1974
Recorded = Sage & Sand Studio Hollywood, California, 1974 April 3~4 | Genre = Jazz
Length = 41:23
Label = Victor (Japan), RCA (U.S.)
Producer = Toshiko Akiyoshi and Hiroshi Isaka
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t8ae4jo71waq~T1 link]
Last album =
This album = "Kogun" (1974)
Next album = "Long Yellow Road" (1975)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Album


Cover size =
Lower caption = RCA (U.S.) LP cover

"Kogun" is the first album recorded by the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was released in Japan by RCA Victor in 1974 and received the Swing Journal Silver Disk prize for that year. It was later released in the USA and elsewhere and received a 1979 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band.

All tracks from this album are also included on the 2008 Mosaic 3 CD compilation, "".

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:
#"Elegy" – 9:13
#"Memory" – 10:24
#"Kogun" – 6:49
#"American Ballad" – 5:49
#"Henpecked Old Man" – 9:08

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone
*Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
*Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
*Gary Foster – alto saxophone
*Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone
*Bobby Shew – trumpet
*John Madrid – trumpet
*Don Rader – trumpet
*Mike Price – trumpet
*Charles Loper – trombone
*Jim Sawyer – trombone
*Britt Woodman – trombone
*Phil Teele – bass trombone
*Gene Cherico – bass
*Peter Donald – drums Other
*Scott Elsworth – voice (track 2, "Memory")

References / External Links

*RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-6246
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t8ae4jo71waq~T1 All Music Guide]
*1979 Grammy award nomination ( [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1979/1979grammy.htm LA Times link] )
* 1974 Swing Journal (Japanese jazz magazine) Silver Disk award ( [http://jazzcd.jp/award/1974.htm Japanese link] )

Toshiko Akiyoshi Discography