Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew

Tabackin Big Band

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Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi -
Lew Tabackin Big Band

Live album by Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew

Tabackin Big Band
Release 1976
d
Recorde Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo and
d Sankei Hall and Kosei Nenkin
Kaikan in Osaka, 1976 January 30
and February 7, 8
Genre Jazz
Length 86:52
Label Victor (Japan), RCA Victor (U.S.)
Produce Hiroshi Isaka
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 Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
chronology

Alternative cover

RCA Victor (U.S.) LP album cover

Tales of a Road Time, Insights
Courtesan Toshiko (1976)
(Oirantan) Akiyoshi -
(1976) Lew Tabackin
Big Band
(1976)
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Nicholson, Stuart.[1] "Essential"

 The Rolling Stone Jazz Record
Guide
[2]

Road Time was the first live concert recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi –
Lew Tabackin Big Band. The recording was made at three concerts in
Tōkyō and Ōsaka, during a 1976 Japan tour and the double album
received a 1977 Grammy nomination in the "Best Jazz Performance - Big
Band" category.
Track listing[edit]
LP 1 side A
1. "Tuning Up" – 16:48
2. "Warning: Success May Be Hazardous To Your Health" – 7:33
LP 1 side B
1. "Henpecked Old Man" – 22:54
LP 2 side A
1. "Soliloquy" – 8:37
2. "Kogun" – 10:40
LP 2 side B
1. "Since Perry" / "Yet Another Tear" – 13:46
2. "Road Time Shuffle" – 6:34
All arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi.
All songs composed by Akiyoshi except "Yet Another Tear" (Tabackin).
Personnel[edit]
• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
• Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
• Gary Foster – alto saxophone
• Bill Byrne – baritone saxophone
• Steven Huffsteter – trumpet
• Bobby Shew – trumpet
• Richard Cooper – trumpet
• Mike Price – trumpet
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
• Jim Sawyer – trombone
 • Jimmy Knepper – trombone
• Phil Teele – bass trombone
• Don Baldwin – bass
• Peter Donald – drums
Guest Artists:
• Kisaku Katada – kotsuzumi (on "Kogun")
• Yutaka Yazaki – ōtsuzumi (on "Kogun")
References / External Links[edit]
1. ^ Nicholson, Stuart. The Essential Jazz Records, Volume 2: Modernism to
Postmodernism, Road Time (p226~229). Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric
Thacker, Stuart Nicholson. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000.
2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA:
Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 7. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
• RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-9115 ~ RCA-9116
• Allmusic
• 1977 Grammy nomination, Best Jazz Performance - Big Band (LA
Times link)