Insights (Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band)

Infobox Album | Name = Insights (Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band)
Type = Album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band


Released = 1976
Recorded = RCA Studio 'A', Hollywood, California, June 22, - June 24 1976| Genre = Jazz
Length = 40:18
Label = Victor (Japan), RCA (U.S.)
Producer = Hiroshi Isaka
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4knsa9qgy23d link]
Last album = "Road Time" (1976)
This album = "Insights" (1976)
Next album = "March of the Tadpoles" (1977)

"Insights" is the fourth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and was voted "Jazz Album of the Year" in the 1978 Down Beat magazine critic's poll. It received the Swing Journal magazine 1976 Gold Disk prize in Japan and was nominated for a 1978 Grammy award in the USA 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:
#"Studio J" – 6:07
#"Transience" – 4:40
#"SUMIE" – 7:55
#"Minamata" (suite) – 21:36
##"Peaceful Village"
##"Prosperity & Consequence"
##"Epilogue"

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
*Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
*Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
*Gary Foster – alto saxophone
*Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone
*Steven Huffsteter – trumpet
*Bobby Shew – trumpet
*Mike Price – trumpet
*Richard Cooper – trumpet (tracks 1, 2, 3)
*Jerry Hey – trumpet (track 4)
*Bill Reichenbach – trombone
*Charlie Loper – trombone
*Britt Woodman – trombone
*Phil Teele – bass trombone
*Don Baldwin – bass
*Peter Donald – drums

Guest Artists:
*Hisao Kanze – utai / Nō chant (track 4, "Minamata")
*Tadao Kamei – ōtsuzumi (track 4, "Minamata")
*Hayao Uzawa – kotsuzumi (track 4, "Minamata")
*(Monday) Michiru Mariano – voice (track 4, "Minamata")
* Hiromitsu Katada – kakko (track 3, "SUMIE")

References / External Links

*RCA Victor Records RVC RVP-6106
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4knsa9qgy23d All Music Guide]
* [http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=704 1978 Down Beat critic's poll award winners]
*1978 Grammy nomination, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band ( [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1978/1978grammy.htm LA Times link] )
*1976 Swing Journal Gold Disk Prize ( [http://jazzcd.jp/award/1976.htm Japanese link] )

Toshiko Akiyoshi Discography