Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

American big band

The Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band at Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, California, 1981

Background information
Origin| Los Angeles, California
Genres| Jazz, big band, bebop
Years active| 1973–1982
Labels| RCA Records/Victor, Baystate

The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin

Origin| New York City
Genres| Jazz, big band, bebop
Years active| 1983–2003
Labels| Sony/Columbia, Victor

The Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band was a 16 piece jazz big band created by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and tenor saxophone/flutist Lew Tabackin in Los Angeles in 1973. In 1982 the principals moved from Los Angeles to New York City and re-formed the group with new members under the name, The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. Akiyoshi arranged all of the music for the band and composed nearly all of the music recorded by the two groups over a 30-year period. Tabackin served as the bands' featured soloist on tenor saxophone and flute. The two groups recorded 23 albums, toured in North America, Asia and Europe and, after the move to New York, had regular performances at the jazz club Birdland before disbanding in 2003. The bands' recordings received several Grammy nominations and regularly scored high in Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls.

## Discography[edit]

Main article: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band discography

## Awards and honors[edit]

Down Beat magazine Critics' Poll winner:[1]

* Jazz Album of the Year: 1978 (Insights)
* Big Band: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983
* Arranger: 1979, 1982, 1990, 1995, 1996 (Akiyoshi)
* Composer: 1981, 1982 (Akiyoshi)
* Flute: 1980, 1981, (2010) (Tabackin)

Down Beat Magazine Readers' Poll winner:[2]

* Big Band: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
* Arranger: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1995 (Akiyoshi)
* Composer: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986 (Akiyoshi)
* Flute: 1981, 1982 (Tabackin)

Grammy award nominations:[3]

* Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band: 1976 (Long Yellow Road), 1977 (Road Time), 1978 (Insights), 1979 (Kogun), 1980 (Farewell), 1981 (Tanuki's Night Out), 1984 (Ten Gallon Shuffle), 1985 (March of the Tadpoles), 1992 (Carnegie Hall Concert), 1994 (Desert Lady / Fantasy).
* Best Arrangement on an Instrumental: 1981 (for "A Bit Byas'd"), 1983 (for "Remembering Bud"), 1985 (for "March of the Tadpoles"), 1994 (for "Bebop").

Swing Journal (Japanese jazz magazine) awards:[4]

* Gold Disk: 1976 (Insights),
* Silver Disk: 1974 (Kogun), 1979 (Salted Gingko Nuts), 1996 (Four Seasons of Morita Village)

Stereo Review[5] Jazz Album of the Year: 1976 (Long Yellow Road)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Down Beat magazine Critic's Poll archives. (link) Archived 2007-12-10 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 10 November 2006.
2. ^ Down Beat magazine Readers Poll winners database "archives" Archived 2009-10-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2010 March.
3. ^ "The Envelope" awards database, Los Angeles Times (link). Accessed 29 November 2006.
4. ^ Swing Journal Jazz Disk Awards archive at JazzCD.jp (Japanese link) Accessed 3 January 2007.
5. ^ NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships: Toshiko Akiyoshi (link) Accessed 11 November 2007

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Solo, Duo, Trio,
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]

Toshiko Akiyoshi
– 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

Toshiko Akiyoshi
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]

Compilations|

* 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

Video recordings|

* My Elegy
* Strive for Jive
* In Shanghai
* The Eternal Duo!

Songs|

* "Hope"

Other|

* Toshiko Akiyoshi discography
* Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band discography

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International|

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National|

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