Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band – Kogun (Full Album)

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Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band – Kogun (Full Album) Kogun is the first album recorded by the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was released in Japan by Victor in 1974 and received the Swing Journal Silver Disk prize for that year. It was later released by RCA in the USA and elsewhere and received a 1979 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band. The Allmusic review by Daniel Gioffre awarded the album 4 stars and stated "It's a record that is simultaneously driving, romantic, and experimental, seductive in its implications and undeniable in its swing. A difficult combination, to be sure, but one for which Akiyoshi clearly has the winning formula". Track listing: All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi LP side A "Elegy" – 9:13 "Memory" – 10:24 LP side B "Kogun" – 6:49 "American Ballad" – 5:49 "Henpecked Old Man" – 9:08 Personnel: Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone Dick Spencer – alto saxophone Gary Foster – alto saxophone Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone Bobby Shew – trumpet John Madrid – trumpet Don Rader – trumpet Mike Price – trumpet Charles Loper – trombone Jim Sawyer – trombone Britt Woodman – trombone Phil Teele – bass trombone Gene Cherico – bass Peter Donald – drums Scott Elsworth – voice (on "Memory") __________________________ Released: 1974 Recorded: Sage & Sand Studio Hollywood, California, 1974 April 3~4 Length: 41:23 Label: Victor (Japan), RCA (U.S.) Producer: Toshiko Akiyoshi and Hiroshi Isaka