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Insights (album)

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Released
  
1976

Producer
  
Hiroshi Isaka

Label
  
RCA Records

Length
  
40:18

Release date
  
1976

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
RCA Studio 'A', Hollywood, California, June 22, - June 24, 1976

Insights (1976)
  
March of the Tadpoles (1977)

Artist
  
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

Similar
  
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums, Jazz albums

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.

Contents

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

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:

LP side A

  1. "Studio J" – 6:07
  2. "Transience" – 4:40
  3. "SUMIE" – 7:55

LP side B

  1. "Minamata" (suite) – 21:36
    1. "Peaceful Village"
    2. "Prosperity & Consequence"
    3. "Epilogue"

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 (except on "Minamata")
  • Jerry Hey – trumpet (on "Minamata")
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
  • Charlie Loper – trombone
  • Britt Woodman – trombone
  • Phil Teele – bass trombone
  • Don Baldwin – bass
  • Peter Donald – drums

    • Guest Artists:

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

    • Songs

    1Studio J6:07
    2Transience4:40
    3Sumie7:55

    References

    Insights (album) Wikipedia
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