Sumi-e (Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band)

Infobox Album | Name = Sumi-e
Type = Album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band


Released = 1979
Recorded = Iruma City Auditorium, Saitama, Japan, 1979 February 2, 3 | Genre = Jazz
Length = ~32:30 (original LP release)
Label = Insights
Producer = Hiroshi Isaka
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2pkcu3egan6k link]
Last album = "Salted Gingko Nuts" (1978)
This album = "Sumi-e" (1979)
Next album = "Farewell" (1980)

"Sumi-e" ("Sumi-e, Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band '79") was the seventh studio recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. Not to be confused with the 1971 Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet release, "Sumie / The Personal Aspect in Jazz". Sumi-e (Nihongo2|すみ絵) refers to an East Asian style of brush painting.

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:

LP Side A:
# "Sumi-e"
# "Hangin' Loose" LP Side B:
# "Quadrille, Anyone?"
# "A-10-205932"

=Track listing on later CD re-issue=

# "Sumi-e" – 7:56
# "A-10-205932" – 10:03
# "A-10-205932" – 9:52 (alternate take)
# "Hangin' Loose" – 8:46
# "Quadrille, Anyone?" – 5:50
# "Quadrille, Anyone?" – 5:55 (alternate take)

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
*Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
*Gary Foster – alto saxophone
*Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
*Bill Byrne – baritone saxophone
*Steven Huffsteter – trumpet
*Bobby Shew – trumpet
*Mike Price – trumpet
*Larry Ford – trumpet
*Bill Reichenbach – trombone
*Randy Aldcroft – trombone
*Rick Culver – trombone
*Phil Teele – bass trombone
*John Heard – bass
*Peter Donald – drums

Guest artist:
*Kisaku Katada – percussion

References / External Links

*Insights 6061 (RVC RVJ-6061)
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2pkcu3egan6k All Music Guide]

Toshiko Akiyoshi Discography