Hope | ||||
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Studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi | ||||
Released | 8 February 2006 | |||
Recorded | 10, 12 December 2005 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 56:19 | |||
Label | Nippon Crown | |||
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Hope is a jazz album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded by Nippon Crown Records in December, 2005 and released in 2006.[1][2]
All songs composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi except as noted:
"Hope (希望)" | |
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Single by Toshiko Akiyoshi & Monday Michiru | |
from the album Hope | |
Released | 2006 December, Japan |
Genre | Jazz |
Label | Nippon Crown |
Songwriter(s) | Toshiko Akiyoshi |
Lyricist(s) | Shuntarō Tanikawa, English translation by Monday Michiru. |
A CD single, "Hope (希望)" was also released by Nippon Crown and includes the title track version from the album with two new vocal versions - one in Japanese and one in English - sung by Akiyoshi's daughter, Monday Michiru.[3][4] The composition "Hope" is the closing section of Akiyoshi's "Hiroshima: Rising from the Abyss" suite, first introduced on the 2001 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra album, Hiroshima - Rising From The Abyss.[5]
"Hope" composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese Lyrics by Shuntarō Tanikawa, vocals and English translation by Monday Michiru.