Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn
1978 studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn | ||||
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Studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi | ||||
Released | 1978 | |||
Recorded | 3, 4, 5 April 1978 | |||
Venue | Hollywood, CA | |||
Studio | Sage and Sound Recording Studio | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 37:26 | |||
Label | Discomate / JAM | |||
Producer | Toshiko Akiyoshi | |||
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JAM Records (US) LP cover | ||||
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Alfa Records (Japan) CD cover | ||||
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Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn (also released as A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn (JAM) and Dedications III (Alfa)) is a jazz album recorded by two different configurations of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio in 1978. It was released on the Discomate record label (and later by Alfa Records) in Japan and on the JAM Record label in the USA.
Track listing
- All songs composed by Billy Strayhorn except "Day Dream," composed by Strayhorn and Duke Ellington:
LP side A
- "Take the "A" Train" – 4:53
- "Day Dream" – 2:59
- "Rain Check" – 5:28
- "Lotus Blossom" – 3:54
LP side B
- "Charpoy" – 5:22
- "Lush Life" – 3:52
- "Chelsea Bridge (song)" – 4:32
- "Intimacy of the Blues" – 6:26
Personnel
- Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
All tracks except A3, B4:
- Peter Donald – drums
- John Heard – bass
Tracks A3, B4:
- Jeff Hamilton – drums
- Bob Daugherty – bass
References / External links
- Discomate DSP-5011
- JAM Records (USA) JAM 5003
- Alfa Records (Japan) ALCR-163
- Allmusic
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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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