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Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band (Novus Series '70)
Compilation album by Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band
Released	1991
Genre	Jazz
Length	57:28
Label	BMG / Novus
Producer(s)	Hiroshi Isaka
Compiled by	John Snyder

The Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band, Novus Series '70 is a compilation album of songs taken from the band's early RCA releases of 1974~1976.

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi except as noted:

1. "Studio J" – 6:00 (from Insights)
2. "American Ballad" – 5:45 (from Kogun)
3. "Quadrille, Anyone?" – 6:20 (From Long Yellow Road)
4. "Children in the Temple Ground" – 5:27 (From Long Yellow Road)
5. "The First Night" – 4:51 (From Long Yellow Road)
6. "Kogun" – 10:24 (from Road Time)
7. "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear" – 12:30 (Comp: T. Akiyoshi / L. Tabackin, from Road Time)
8. "Road Time Shuffle" – 6:11 (from Road Time)

• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
• Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute
• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
• Gary Foster – alto saxophone
• Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone ("Studio J", "American Ballad", "The First Night", "Quadrille, Anyone", "Children in the Temple Ground")
• Bill Byrne – baritone saxophone ("Kogun", "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear", "Road Time Shuffle")
• Bobby Shew – trumpet
• Mike Price – trumpet
• Steven Huffsteter – trumpet ("Studio J", "Kogun", "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear", "Road Time Shuffle")
• Don Rader – trumpet ("American Ballad", "The First Night", "Quadrille, Anyone?", "Children in the Temple Ground")
• Richard Cooper – trumpet ("Studio J", "Kogun", "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear", "Road Time Shuffle")
• Stu Blumberg – trumpet ("The First Night", "Children in the Temple Ground")
• Lynn Nicholson – trumpet ("Quadrille, Anyone?")
• John Madrid – trumpet ("American Ballad")
• Phil Teele – bass trombone
• Charlie Loper – trombone
• Britt Woodman – trombone
• Jim Sawyer – trombone ("American Ballad", "Kogun", "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear", "Road Time Shuffle")
• Bill Reichenbach – trombone ("Studio J", "Kogun", "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear", "Road Time Shuffle")
• Bruce Paulson – trombone ("The First Night", "Quadrille, Anyone?", "Children in the Temple Ground")
• Jimmy Knepper – trombone ("Kogun", "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear", "Road Time Shuffle")
• Peter Donald – drums
• Don Baldwin – bass ("Studio J", "Kogun", "Since Perry / Yet Another Tear", "Road Time Shuffle")
• Gene Cherico – bass ("American Ballad", "The First Night", "Quadrille, Anyone?", "Children in the Temple Ground")

Special guests:

• Tokuko Kaga – vocal ("Children in the Temple Ground")
• Kisaku Katada – kotsuzumi ("Kogun")
• Yutaka Yazaki – Ōtsuzumi ("Kogun")

album cover / liner notes BMG 3106-2-N
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v • d • e Toshiko Akiyoshi discography
Solo & small combo albums
Toshiko's Piano / Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi | Toshiko At Mocambo | The Toshiko Trio | Her Trio, Her Quartet | Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport | 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 | 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 | In Japan / Long Yellow Road (Quartet) | Jazz, The Personal Dimension | Meditation | Sumie / The Personal Aspect In Jazz | Solo Piano | Dedications | Dedications II | Just Be Bop | Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn / A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn / Dedications III | Finesse | Notorious Tourist from the East / Toshiko Plays Toshiko | Tuttie Flutie | Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio | Time Stream | Interlude | Four Seasons | Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream | Chic Lady | Dig | At Maybeck | Night and Dream | Yes, I Have No 4 Beat Today | Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko | Live at Blue Note Tokyo '97 | Sketches of Japan | Solo Live at the Kennedy Center | New York Sketch Book | Hope | 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan | ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band & Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra albums
Kogun | Long Yellow Road | Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan) | Road Time | Insights | March of the Tadpoles | Live at Newport '77 | Live at Newport II | Salted Gingko Nuts | Sumi-e | Farewell | From Toshiko With Love / Tanuki's Night Out | European Memoirs | Ten Gallon Shuffle | Wishing Peace | Carnegie Hall Concert | Desert Lady / Fantasy | Four Seasons of Morita Village | Monopoly Game | Tribute To Duke Ellington | Hiroshima - Rising From The Abyss | Last Live In Blue Note Tokyo
Compilation albums
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
Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra video recordings
My Elegy | Strive For Jive