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Let Freedom Swing

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Released
  
2008 February

Let Freedom Swing (2008)
  
Vintage... (2008)

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
1:44:39

Release date
  
February 2008

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Recorded
  
2007 May 9–12, SWR U-Musik-Studio, Villa Berg, Stuttgart

Label
  
Hänssler Verlag (Germany)

Voyage, Don Menza and the SWR Big Band (2007)
  
Let Freedom Swing (2008)

Artists
  
Toshiko Akiyoshi, SWR Big Band

Similar
  
Toshiko Akiyoshi albums, Jazz albums

Let Freedom Swing is a big band jazz album recorded by the SWR Big Band with Toshiko Akiyoshi as guest pianist/conductor. The album was released as a 2 disk CD in February 2008 by Hänssler Verlag in Germany and includes performances of 12 Akiyoshi compositions.

Contents

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:

  1. "Drum Conference" (3rd movement) – 13:28
  2. "Repose" – 5:16
  3. "Harlequin's Tear" – 7:16
  4. "Kogun" – 8:10
  5. "Feast in Milano" – 8:15
  6. "Let Freedom Swing" – 9:42
  7. "Lady Liberty" – 7:24
  8. "Pollination" – 13:08
  9. "I Know Who Loves You" – 5:48
  10. "Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health" – 5:48
  11. "Song For The Harvest" – 7:24
  12. "Epilogue: Hope" – 4:50
  13. "Harlequin's Tear" (live bonus track) – 7:35

Personnel

  • Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
  • Decebal Badila – bass
  • Holger Nell – drums
  • Farouk Gomati – percussion
  • Klaus Graf – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone
  • Axel Kühn – alto saxophone, flute, soprano saxophone
  • Andreas Maile – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone
  • Jörg Kaufmann – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo flute
  • Pierre Paquette – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
  • Karl Farrent – trumpet
  • Claus Reichstaller – trumpet
  • Frank Wellert – trumpet
  • Felice Civitareale – trumpet
  • Rudolf Reindl – trumpet
  • Marc Godfroid – trombone
  • Ian Cumming – trombone
  • Ernst Hutter – trombone
  • Georg Maus – trombone
  • Dagmar Claus – speaker (on track 6, Let Freedom Swing)

    • References

    Let Freedom Swing Wikipedia
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