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Strive for Jive

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Released
  
1993

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
V.I.E.W. Video

Initial release
  
1993 (USA)

Initial DVD release
  
2009

Recorded
  
1985, Chicago

Length
  
48:00

Strive For Jive (1985)
  
In Shanghai (2011)

Director
  
Arnold Rosenthal

Producer
  
Yale Wexler

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Cast
  
Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabackin, Jim Snidero, Frank Wess, Brian Lynch

Similar
  
My Elegy, Ghost in the Machine, The Gazebo, The Story of Vernon and Irene, Surviving The Game

1996 toshiko akiyoshi big band strive for jive


The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: Strive for Jive is a live video recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin in a jazz club setting. The video was apparently recorded in the mid 1980s in Chicago and first released on VHS video tape around 1993 and on DVD in 2009.

Contents

Toshiko akiyoshi strive for jive


Track listing

All songs composed and orchestrated by Toshiko Akiyoshi:

  1. "Yellow Is Mellow"
  2. "Strive For Jive"
  3. "Quadrille, Anyone?"
  4. "Autumn Sea"
  5. "Warning: Success May Be Hazardous To Your Health"
  6. "Strive For Jive" (Reprise)

Personnel

  • Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
  • Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo
  • Walt Weiskopf – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute
  • Frank Wess – alto saxophone, clarinet, flute
  • Jim Snidero – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • Ed Xiques – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • Brian Lynch – trumpet
  • Joe Mosello – trumpet
  • John Eckert – trumpet
  • Chris Pasin – trumpet
  • Dave Panichi – trombone
  • Hart Smith – trombone
  • Bruce Otter – trombone
  • Matt Finders – bass trombone
  • Dennis Irwin – bass
  • Jeff Hirschfield – drums
  • References

    Strive for Jive Wikipedia