50th Anniversary Concert in Japan

Infobox Album
Name = 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan
Type = live album
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi


Released = 2006 November 1
Recorded = Asahi Hall, Yūrakuchō, Tokyo, 2006 March 6
Genre = Jazz
Length =
Label = T-toc Records
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Hope" (2005)
This album = "50th Anniversary Concert in Japan" (2006)
Next album = "Let Freedom Swing" (2008)

"50th Anniversary Concert in Japan" (Japanese title, Nihongo2|渡米50周年記念日本公演 = "American visit 50th anniversary commemorative Japanese performance") is a live concert album recorded by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and released in Japan on the T-toc Record label. The concert commemorated 50 years since Akiyoshi left Japan to study and play jazz in the USA and the album received several Japanese music awards including a "special award" for Japanese Jazz from "Swing Journal" magazine.

Track listing

All compositions by Toshiko Akiyoshi except as noted:
#"Long Yellow Road"
#"Kogun"
#"Farewell To Mingus"
#"The Village" ~ "Lady Liberty"
#"Trinkle Tinkle" (T. Monk)
#"Sumie"
#"Chasing After Love"

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute
*George Mraz – bass
*Lewis Nash – drums

References / External Links / Awards

*T-toc Records TTOC-0006
*2006 Swing Journal Japan Jazz special award ( [http://jazzcd.jp/award/2006.htm Japanese link] )