Insights (Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band)

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Insights (Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band)
Studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Released	1976
Recorded	RCA Studio 'A', Hollywood, California, June 22, - June 24, 1976
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:18
Label	Victor (Japan), RCA (U.S.)
Producer	Hiroshi Isaka
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology
Road Time (1976) Insights (1976) March of the Tadpoles (1977)

Insights is the fourth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and was voted "Jazz Album of the Year" in the 1978 Down Beat magazine critic's poll. It received the Swing Journal magazine 1976 Gold Disk prize in Japan and was nominated for a 1978 Grammy award in the USA for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band.

[edit] Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:

1. "Studio J" – 6:07
2. "Transience" – 4:40
3. "SUMIE" – 7:55
4. "Minamata" (suite) – 21:36
   1. "Peaceful Village"
   2. "Prosperity & Consequence"
   3. "Epilogue"

[edit] Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
• Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
• Gary Foster – alto saxophone
• Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone
• Steven Huffsteter – trumpet
• Bobby Shew – trumpet
• Mike Price – trumpet
• Richard Cooper – trumpet (tracks 1, 2, 3)
• Jerry Hey – trumpet (track 4)
• Bill Reichenbach – trombone
• Charlie Loper – trombone
• Britt Woodman – trombone
• Phil Teele – bass trombone
• Don Baldwin – bass
• Peter Donald – drums

Guest Artists:

• Hisao Kanze – utai / Nō chant (track 4, "Minamata")
• Tadao Kamei – ōtsuzumi (track 4, "Minamata")
• Hayao Uzawa – kotsuzumi (track 4, "Minamata")
• (Monday) Michiru Mariano – voice (track 4, "Minamata")
• Hiromitsu Katada – kakko (track 3, "SUMIE")

[edit] References / External Links

• RCA Victor Records RVC RVP-6106
  
• All Music Guide
  
• 1978 Down Beat critic's poll award winners
• 1978 Grammy nomination, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band (LA Times link)
• 1976 Swing Journal Gold Disk Prize (Japanese link)

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