Long Yellow Road, Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band

Infobox Album | Name = Long Yellow Road
Type = Album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band


Released = 1975
Recorded = Sage & Sand Studio Hollywood, California| Genre = Jazz
Length = 42:30
Label = Victor (Japan), RCA (U.S.)
Producer = Hiroshi Isaka
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wrapqj3yojka link]
Last album = "Kogun" (1974)
This album = "Long Yellow Road" (1975)
Next album = "Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan)" (1976)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Album


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

"Long Yellow Road" is the second recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The album was nominated for a 1976 Grammy award in the category, "Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band" and was named "Jazz album of the year" by Stereo Review magazine.Fact|date=May 2007

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

"Long Yellow Road" is also the title of two other Akiyoshi recordings by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1961) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet (1970).

Track listing

All arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi. All songs composed by Akiyoshi except as noted:
#"Long Yellow Road" – 6:30
#"The First Night" – 4:58
#"Opus No. Zero" – 10:10
#"Quadrille, Anyone?" – 6:25
#"Children in the Temple Ground" – 5:32
#"Since Perry" / "Yet Another Tear" (Akiyoshi / Tabackin) – 8:55

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo
*Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone, alto flute, clarinet
*Dick Spencer – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
*Gary Foster – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6)
*Joe Roccisano – alto saxophone (track 3)
*Bill Perkins – Baritone saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet
*Bobby Shew – trumpet
*John Madrid – trumpet (track 1)
*Stu Blumberg – trumpet (tracks 2, 3, 5)
*Lynn Nicholson – trumpet (tracks 4, 6)
*Don Rader – trumpet
*Mike Price – trumpet
*Charlie Loper – trombone
*Jim Sawyer – trombone (track 1)
*Bruce Paulson – trombone (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
*Britt Woodman – trombone
*Phil Teele – bass trombone
*Gene Cherico – bass
*Peter Donald – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5)
*Chuck Flores – drums (tracks 3, 6)Guest
*Tokuko Kaga – vocal (track 5, "Children in the Temple Ground")

References / External Links

*RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-6296
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wrapqj3yojka All Music Guide]
*1976 Grammy award nomination, Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band ( [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1976/1976grammy.htm LA Times link] )

Toshiko Akiyoshi Discography