Let Freedom Swing
2008 studio album by SWR Big Band, Toshiko Akiyoshi
Let Freedom Swing | ||||
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Studio album by SWR Big Band, Toshiko Akiyoshi | ||||
Released | February 2008 | |||
Recorded | 9–12 May 2007, | |||
Studio | SWR U-Musik-Studio, Villa Berg, Stuttgart | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 1:44:39 | |||
Label | Hänssler Verlag (Germany) | |||
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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.
Track listing
All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:
- "Drum Conference" (3rd movement) – 13:28
- "Repose" – 5:16
- "Harlequin's Tear" – 7:16
- "Kogun" – 8:10
- "Feast in Milano" – 8:15
- "Let Freedom Swing" – 9:42
- "Lady Liberty" – 7:24
- "Pollination" – 13:08
- "I Know Who Loves You" – 5:48
- "Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health" – 5:48
- "Song For The Harvest" – 7:24
- "Epilogue: Hope" – 4:50
- "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)
External links
- SWR Big Band home page
- Hänssler Verlag
- Hänssler CD 93.203
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Toshiko Akiyoshi
Quartet, etc.
recordings as
leader/co-leader
- Toshiko's Piano / Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Toshiko at Mocambo [live]
- The Toshiko Trio
- Her Trio, Her Quartet
- Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport [live]
- The Many Sides of Toshiko
- United Notions
- The Toshiko–Mariano Quartet
- Long Yellow Road (Trio) / Toshiko Akiyoshi Recital
- Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals
- Live at Birdland [live]
- Toshiko–Mariano Quartet (in West Side)
- East & West
- The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos / With Steve Kuhn, Together
- Miwaku No Jazz (Fascinating Jazz)
- Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band / Toshiko & Modern Jazz
- Lullabies for You
- At Top of the Gate [live]
- In Japan / Long Yellow Road (Quartet) [live]
- Jazz, the Personal Dimension
- Meditation
- Sumie / The Personal Aspect In Jazz
- Solo Piano
- Dedications
- Dedications II
- Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn / A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn / Dedications III
- Finesse
- Notorious Tourist from the East / Toshiko Plays Toshiko
- Just Be Bop
- Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio, 1980 In Rikuzentakata [live]
- Tuttie Flutie
- Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio
- Time Stream
- Interlude
- Four Seasons
- Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream
- Chic Lady
- Dig
- At Maybeck [live]
- Night and Dream
- Yes, I Have No 4 Beat Today
- Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko
- Live at Blue Note Tokyo '97 [live]
- Sketches of Japan
- Solo Live at the Kennedy Center [live]
- New York Sketch Book
- Hope
- 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan [live]
- Let Freedom Swing
- Vintage
- Solo Live 2004 [live]
- Classic Encounters
- Jazz Conversations
- Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's Porgy And Bess
- My Long Yellow Road
- The Eternal Duo! [live]
– Lew Tabackin
Big Band
- Kogun
- Long Yellow Road
- Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan)
- Road Time [live]
- Insights
- March of the Tadpoles
- Live at Newport '77 [live]
- Live at Newport II [live]
- Salted Gingko Nuts
- Sumi-e
- Farewell
- From Toshiko with Love / Tanuki's Night Out
- European Memoirs
Jazz Orchestra
feat. Lew Tabackin
- Ten Gallon Shuffle
- Wishing Peace
- Carnegie Hall Concert [live]
- Desert Lady – Fantasy
- Four Seasons of Morita Village
- Monopoly Game
- Tribute to Duke Ellington
- Hiroshima – Rising from the Abyss [live]
- Last Live in Blue Note Tokyo [live]
- Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra in Shanghai [live]
- 1961
- Shibuya Jazz Classics
- Best Gold ‘89~’96
- Best Silver ‘89~’96
- The World of Toshiko Akiyoshi
- NOVUS Series ‘70: The Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band
- Eternal Best / Best 8
- The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
- My Elegy
- Strive for Jive
- In Shanghai
- The Eternal Duo!
- "Hope"
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