From Toshiko with Love

Infobox Album | Name = From Toshiko With Love
Type = Album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band


Released = 1981
Recorded = Devonshire Sound Studios, Los Angeles, California, 1981 March 24, 25 and April 20 | Genre = Jazz
Length = 39:15
Label = Victor (Japan), JAM (U.S.)
Producer = Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5c2tk6sxlkrk link]
Last album = "Farewell" (1980)
This album = "From Toshiko with Love" (1981)
Next album = "European Memoirs" (1982)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Album


Lower caption = Original JAM (U.S.) LP cover

"From Toshiko With Love" is the twelfth recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band (ninth studio recording). It was released in Japan by (RCA) Victor Records and in the U.S. (under the title "Tanuki's Night Out") by Jazz America Marketing – not to be confused with the 2002 Lew Tabackin Trio recording of the same name "(Tanuki's Night Out)". The album received two Grammy award nominations in 1981 for "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band" and "Best Arrangement of an Instrumental Recording" (for the song "A Bit Byas'd").

Track listing

All songs composed by Lew Tabackin and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:
#"A Bit Byas'd" – 7:29
#"Lament for Sonny" – 5:11
#"Let the Tape Roll" – 7:30
#"Tanuki's Night Out" – 7:40
#"Falling Petal" – 8:36
#"Yet Another Tear" – 2:49

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
*John Gross – tenor saxophone
*Dan Higgins – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6)
*Gary Foster – alto saxophone (track 3)
*Bob Sheppard – alto saxophone
*Bill Byrne – baritone saxophone
*Buddy Childers – trumpet
*Steve Huffsteter – trumpet
*Larry Ford – trumpet and piccolo trumpet
*Mike Price – trumpet (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6)
*Richard Cooper – trumpet (track 3)
*Jim Sawyer – trombone
*Hart Smith – trombone
*Bruce Fowler – trombone
*Phil Teele – bass trombone
*Edward Bennett – bass
*Steve Haughton – drums

References / External Links

*RCA Victor (Japan) Records RVC RJL-8016
*JAM (Jazz America Marketing) JAM 006
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5c2tk6sxlkrk All Music Guide]
*1981 Grammy nominations, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band and (for "A Bit Byas'd") Best Arrangement of an Instrumental Recording ( [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1981/1981grammy.htm LA Times link] )

Toshiko Akiyoshi Discography