Toshiko at Mocambo

Infobox Album
Name = Toshiko At Mocambo
Type = live album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi


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Released =
Recorded = Mocambo Club, Yokohama, Japan, 1954 July 27, 28
Genre = Jazz
Length = 49:16
Label = Rockwell / Polydor
Producer = Kiyoshi Iwami, Shoichi Yui
Reviews =
Last album = "Toshiko's Piano" (1954)
This album = "Toshiko at Mocambo" (1954)
Next album = "The Toshiko Trio" (1956)

The album "Toshiko at Mocambo" (full title, "Toshiko at Mocambo, The Historic Mocambo Session '54, Volume 3") was recorded by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi at the Mocambo club in Yokohama, Japan in the summer of 1954. All four tracks from this recording as well as additional tracks from the same all-night live session with and without Akiyoshi were released on the 3 CD Rockwell – Polydor / Universal album, "The Complete Historic Mocambo Session '54" – including, reportedly, a performance of "It's Only a Paper Moon" with Akiyoshi filling in on bass.

Track listing

Side A:
#"Fine and Dandy" (Swift, James) – 15:11
#"Taking a Chance on Love" (Duke, Latouche, Fetter) – 8:52Side B:
#"Donna Lee" (Parker) – 9:41
#"Air Conditioning" (Parker) – 15:32

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Sadao Watanabe – alto saxophone
*Keiichiro Ebihara – alto saxophone ("Fine and Dandy")
*Akira Miyazawa – tenor saxophone (except "Taking A Chance On Love")
*Akitoshi Igarashi – alto saxophone ("Taking A Chance On Love")
*Gō Ueda – bass (except "Taking A Chance On Love")
*Jun Shimizu – drums (except "Fine and Dandy")
*Kanji Harada – drums ("Fine and Dandy")

References / External links

*Polydor / Rockwell MPF-1029
*Rockwell Records [http://www.rockwell-records.com/mocambo54.html (link)]
*Allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tb2uakokdm3v The Complete Historic Mocambo Session '54]

Toshiko Akiyoshi Discography