Toshiko Akiyoshi, SWR Big Band

Let Freedom Swing

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CD/ Track	Title	Duration
1.1	Drum Conference (3rd Movement)	13:28
1.2	Repose	05:16
1.3	Harlequin's Tear	07:16
1.4	Kogun	08:10
1.5	Feast In Milano	08:15
1.6	Let Freedom Swing	09:42
2.1	Lady Liberty	07:24
2.2	Polination	13:08
2.3	I Know Who Loves You	05:48
2.4	Warning! Success May Be Hazardous To Your Health	05:48
2.5	Song For The Harvest	07:24
2.6	"Epilogue: Hope"	04:50
2.7	Harleyuin's Tear Live (Bonus Track)	07:35

available

24,95 EUR

: SCM Hänssler
Art.-No.:: 093.203.000
: Doppel-CD
: 8 S. Booklet
Duration:: 1:44 hrs.
: February 2008
: *recommended retail price

The signature features of Toshiko Akiyoshi's compositional style are unmistakable. First of all, there is the rootedness in bebop, secondly the amalgamation of big band jazz with Japanese elements of music and thirdly the ingenious use of the woodwind section. In May 2007 she had her first opportunity to cooperate with the SWR Big Band. With untiring energy and rousing motivational power the orchestra leader, composer, arranger and pianist of world renown rehearsed 13 of her own pieces with the SWR Big Band, covering a broad spectrum from bebop powerplay to soft yearning ballads. These outstanding recordings extend the top-class jazz CD series of the SWR Big Band, which plays with great potential and, in this mutual giving and taking, once again gives proof of its international caliber.