Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band

Infobox Album | Name = Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band
Type = Live Album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band


Released = 1976
Recorded = Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo and Sankei Hall and Kosei Nenkin Kaikan in Osaka, 1976 January 30 and February 7, 8| Genre = Jazz
Length = 86:52
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=10:5dw67uq070jk link]
*Nicholson, Stuart. "Essential" [Nicholson, Stuart. The Essential Jazz Records, Volume 2: Modernism to Postmodernism, "Road Time" (p226~229). Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000.]
Last album = "Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan)" (1976)
This album = "Road Time" (1976)
Next album = "Insights" (1976)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Live Album


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

"Road Time" was the first live concert recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The recording was taken from three concerts in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan in early 1976 and the album received a 1977 Grammy nomination in the "Best Jazz Performance - Big Band" category.

Track listing

All arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi. All songs composed by Akiyoshi except as noted:
#"Tuning Up" – 16:48
#"Warning: Success May Be Hazardous To Your Health" – 7:33
#"Henpecked Old Man" – 22:54
#"Soliloquy" – 8:37
#"Kogun" – 10:40
#"Since Perry" / "Yet Another Tear" (Akiyoshi / Tabackin) – 13:46
#"Road Time Shuffle" – 6:34

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
*Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
*Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
*Gary Foster – alto saxophone
*Bill Byrne – baritone saxophone
*Steven Huffsteter – trumpet
*Bobby Shew – trumpet
*Richard Cooper – trumpet
*Mike Price – trumpet
*Bill Reichenbach – trombone
*Jim Sawyer – trombone
*Jimmy Knepper – trombone
*Phil Teele – bass trombone
*Don Baldwin – bass
*Peter Donald – drums

Guest Artists:
*Kisaku Katada – kotsuzumi (track 5, "Kogun")
*Yutaka Yazaki – ōtsuzumi (track 5, "Kogun")

References / External Links

*RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-9115 ~ RCA-9116
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5dw67uq070jk All Music Guide]
*1977 Grammy nomination, Best Jazz Performance - Big Band ( [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1977/1977grammy.htm LA Times link] )

Toshiko Akiyoshi Discography