Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
1976 live album by Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
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Released | 1976 | |||
Recorded | Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo and Sankei Hall and Kosei Nenkin Kaikan in Osaka, 1976 January 30 and February 7, 8 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 86:52 | |||
Label | Victor (Japan), RCA Victor (U.S.) | |||
Producer | Hiroshi Isaka | |||
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
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Nicholson, Stuart.[1] | "Essential" |
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Road Time was the first live concert recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The recording was made at three concerts in Tōkyō and Ōsaka, during a 1976 Japan tour and the double album received a 1977 Grammy nomination in the "Best Jazz Performance - Big Band" category.
Track listing
LP 1 side A
- "Tuning Up" – 16:48
- "Warning: Success May Be Hazardous To Your Health" – 7:33
LP 1 side B
- "Henpecked Old Man" – 22:54
LP 2 side A
- "Soliloquy" – 8:37
- "Kogun" – 10:40
LP 2 side B
- "Since Perry" / "Yet Another Tear" – 13:46
- "Road Time Shuffle" – 6:34
All arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi.
All songs composed by Akiyoshi except "Yet Another Tear" (Tabackin).
Personnel
- Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
- Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
- Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
- Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
- Gary Foster – alto saxophone
- Bill Byrne – baritone saxophone
- Steven Huffsteter – trumpet
- Bobby Shew – trumpet
- Richard Cooper – trumpet
- Mike Price – trumpet
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
- Jim Sawyer – trombone
- Jimmy Knepper – trombone
- Phil Teele – bass trombone
- Don Baldwin – bass
- Peter Donald – drums
Guest Artists:
References / External Links
- ^ Nicholson, Stuart. The Essential Jazz Records, Volume 2: Modernism to Postmodernism, Road Time (p226~229). Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 7. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-9115 ~ RCA-9116
- Allmusic
- 1977 Grammy nomination, Best Jazz Performance - Big Band (LA Times link)
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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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