Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band album)
1975 studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Long Yellow Road | ||||
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Released | 1975 | |||
Recorded | April 4, 1974 – March 4, 1975 | |||
Studio | Sage & Sound Studio, Hollywood, California | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 42:30 | |||
Label | Victor (Japan), RCA Victor (U.S.) | |||
Producer | Hiroshi Isaka | |||
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology | ||||
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RCA Victor (U.S.) LP cover | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
Long Yellow Road is the second album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was named Best Jazz Album of the year by Stereo Review magazine.[3] In 1976, the album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band.
"Long Yellow Road" is the title of two other albums by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1961) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet (1970).
Track listing
All music is composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Long Yellow Road" | 6:30 |
2. | "The First Night"" | 4:58 |
3. | "Opus No. Zero" | 10:10 |
No. | Title | Length |
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4. | "Quadrille, Anyone" | 6:25 |
5. | "Children in the Temple Ground" | 5:32 |
6. | "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear" (Lew Tabackin) | 8:55 |
Personnel
- Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
- Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo
- Stu Blumberg – trumpet (on "The First Night", Opus No. Zero" and "Children in the Temple Ground")
- John Madrid – trumpet (on "Long Yellow Road")
- Lynn Nicholson – trumpet (on "Quadrille Anyone?" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
- Mike Price – trumpet
- Don Rader – trumpet
- Bobby Shew – trumpet
- Charlie Loper – trombone
- Bruce Paulson – trombone (except on "Long Yellow Road")
- Jim Sawyer – trombone (on "Long Yellow Road")
- Phil Teele – bass trombone
- Britt Woodman – trombone
- Dick Spencer – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
- Gary Foster – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet (except on "Opus No. Zero")
- Joe Roccisano – alto saxophone (on "Opus No. Zero")
- Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone, alto flute, clarinet
- Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet
- Gene Cherico – bass
- Peter Donald – drums (except on "Opus No. Zero" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
- Chuck Flores – drums (on "Opus No. Zero" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
- Tokuko Kaga – vocal (on "Children in the Temple Ground")
References
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Quartet, etc.
recordings as
leader/co-leader
- Toshiko's Piano / Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Toshiko at Mocambo [live]
- The Toshiko Trio
- Her Trio, Her Quartet
- Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport [live]
- The Many Sides of Toshiko
- United Notions
- The Toshiko–Mariano Quartet
- Long Yellow Road (Trio) / Toshiko Akiyoshi Recital
- Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals
- Live at Birdland [live]
- Toshiko–Mariano Quartet (in West Side)
- East & West
- The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos / With Steve Kuhn, Together
- Miwaku No Jazz (Fascinating Jazz)
- Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band / Toshiko & Modern Jazz
- Lullabies for You
- At Top of the Gate [live]
- In Japan / Long Yellow Road (Quartet) [live]
- Jazz, the Personal Dimension
- Meditation
- Sumie / The Personal Aspect In Jazz
- Solo Piano
- Dedications
- Dedications II
- Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn / A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn / Dedications III
- Finesse
- Notorious Tourist from the East / Toshiko Plays Toshiko
- Just Be Bop
- Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio, 1980 In Rikuzentakata [live]
- Tuttie Flutie
- Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio
- Time Stream
- Interlude
- Four Seasons
- Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream
- Chic Lady
- Dig
- At Maybeck [live]
- Night and Dream
- Yes, I Have No 4 Beat Today
- Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko
- Live at Blue Note Tokyo '97 [live]
- Sketches of Japan
- Solo Live at the Kennedy Center [live]
- New York Sketch Book
- Hope
- 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan [live]
- Let Freedom Swing
- Vintage
- Solo Live 2004 [live]
- Classic Encounters
- Jazz Conversations
- Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's Porgy And Bess
- My Long Yellow Road
- The Eternal Duo! [live]
– Lew Tabackin
Big Band
- Kogun
- Long Yellow Road
- Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan)
- Road Time [live]
- Insights
- March of the Tadpoles
- Live at Newport '77 [live]
- Live at Newport II [live]
- Salted Gingko Nuts
- Sumi-e
- Farewell
- From Toshiko with Love / Tanuki's Night Out
- European Memoirs
Jazz Orchestra
feat. Lew Tabackin
- Ten Gallon Shuffle
- Wishing Peace
- Carnegie Hall Concert [live]
- Desert Lady – Fantasy
- Four Seasons of Morita Village
- Monopoly Game
- Tribute to Duke Ellington
- Hiroshima – Rising from the Abyss [live]
- Last Live in Blue Note Tokyo [live]
- Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra in Shanghai [live]
- 1961
- Shibuya Jazz Classics
- Best Gold ‘89~’96
- Best Silver ‘89~’96
- The World of Toshiko Akiyoshi
- NOVUS Series ‘70: The Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band
- Eternal Best / Best 8
- The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
- My Elegy
- Strive for Jive
- In Shanghai
- The Eternal Duo!
- "Hope"
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