Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band album)

Long Yellow Road
Studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Released 1975
Recorded Sage & Sand Studio Hollywood, California
Genre Jazz
Length 42:30
Label Victor (Japan), RCA (U.S.)
Producer Hiroshi Isaka
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology
Kogun
(1974)		 Long Yellow Road
(1975)		 Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan)
(1976)
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[1]

Long Yellow Road is the second recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The album was nominated for a 1976 Grammy award in the category, "Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band" and was named "Jazz album of the year" by Stereo Review magazine.

All tracks from this album are also included on the 2008 Mosaic 3 CD compilation, Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band.

Long Yellow Road is also the title of two other Akiyoshi recordings by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1961) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet (1970).

Track listing

All arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi. All songs composed by Akiyoshi except "Yet Another Tear" (Tabackin).

LP side A

  1. "Long Yellow Road" – 6:30
  2. "The First Night" – 4:58
  3. "Opus No. Zero" – 10:10

LP side B

  1. "Quadrille, Anyone?" – 6:25
  2. "Children in the Temple Ground" – 5:32
  3. "Since Perry" / "Yet Another Tear" – 8:55

Personnel

Guest

  1. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 7. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.



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