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March of the Tadpoles

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Released
  
1977

Producer
  
Hiroshi Isaka

Label
  
Baystate

Length
  
36:56

Release date
  
1977

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
RCA Studio 'A', Hollywood, California, January 10,January 11, 1977

March of the Tadpoles (1977)
  
Live at Newport '77 (1977)

Artist
  
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

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

March of the Tadpoles was the fifth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The album was released in Japan in 1977 by Baystate. The album received two 1985 Grammy award nominations – for "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band" and for "Best Arrangement on an Instrumental" (for the song, "March of the Tadpoles").

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. "March of the Tadpoles" – 6:54
  2. "Mobile" – 5:20
  3. "Deracinated Flower" – 8:14

LP side B

  1. "Yellow is Mellow" – 8:53
  2. "Notorious Tourist from the East" – 7:35

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
  • Charlie Loper – trombone
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
  • Rick Culver – trombone
  • Phil Teele – bass trombone
  • Don Baldwin – bass
  • Peter Donald – drums

    • Guest artist:

  • Emil Richards – percussion (on "Notorious Tourist from the East")

    • Songs

    1March of the Tadpoles6:58
    2Mobile5:24
    3Deracinated Flower8:19

    References

    March of the Tadpoles Wikipedia
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