The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet

Infobox Album
Name = Toshiko - Mariano Quartet
Type = album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi, Charlie Mariano


Released = 1961
Recorded = Nola Penthouse Sound Studios, New York City, 1960 December 5
Genre = Jazz
Length = 41:06
Label = Candid
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:mex8b5b4bsq0 link]
*Time Magazine 1961 May 12 [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,869904,00.html link]
Chronology = Toshiko Akiyoshi
Last album = "United Notions" (1958)
This album = "The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet" (1961)
Next album = "Long Yellow Road" (1961)

The jazz album "The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet" featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi (then Toshiko Mariano) on piano and Charlie Mariano on alto saxophone was recorded in New York in 1960 and released on the Candid label. This Candid recording is not to be confused with 1963's similarly titled "Toshiko - Mariano Quartet", a recording of mostly Leonard Bernstein songs from the musical "West Side Story", released on the Takt (Nippon Columbia) label.

Track listing

#"When You Meet Her" (Mariano) – 6:24
#"Little T" (Mariano) – 13:14
#"Toshiko's Elegy" (Akiyoshi, Mariano) – 8:42
#"Deep River" ("traditional") – 5:35
#"Long Yellow Road" (Akiyoshi, Mariano) – 7:11

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Charlie Mariano – alto saxophone
*Eddie Marshall – drums
*Gene Cherico – bass

References / External Links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:mex8b5b4bsq0 All Music Guide]
*Candid CS-9012, Candid CM-8012
Toshiko Akiyoshi Discography