Insights (album)

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Released 1976 Producer Hiroshi Isaka Label RCA Records		Length 40:18 Release date 1976 Genre Jazz

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.

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

LP side B

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

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

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")

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

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