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    Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band in Los Angeles, which later became the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin, playing bebop in...
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  • Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band (2008), Mosaic Records NOVUS Series '70: The Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band (1991), BMG / Novus...
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    Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band was a 16 piece jazz big band created by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and tenor saxophone/flutist Lew Tabackin in Los Angeles...
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    saxophonist Lew Tabackin, whom she married in 1969. Akiyoshi, Tabackin, and Michiru moved to Los Angeles in 1972. In March 1973, Akiyoshi and Tabackin formed...
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  • Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band is a 3 CD compilation album released by Mosaic Records in October 2008 and is composed of the first...
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  • Long Yellow Road is the second album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was named Best Jazz Album of the year by Stereo Review magazine...
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  • 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...
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  • Time was the first live concert recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The recording was made at three concerts in Tōkyō and Ōsaka...
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  • March of the Tadpoles (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
    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...
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  • Kogun (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
    the first album recorded by the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was released in Japan by Victor in 1974 and received the...
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  • Bruce Lambourne Fowler (born July 10, 1947) is an American trombonist and composer. He played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain...
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  • Farewell is the eighth studio recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The album received a 1980 Grammy award nomination for "Best...
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  • Phil Woods/Lew Tabackin is an album by saxophonists Phil Woods and Lew Tabackin, recorded in 1980 for the Omnisound label and rereleased on Evidence. AllMusic...
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  • trumpeter Donald Byrd, featuring performances by Byrd with Frank Foster, Lew Tabackin, Duke Pearson, Ron Carter, Bob Cranshaw, Airto Moreira, Wally Richardson...
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  • "Minamata", that was to be the central piece of the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's 1976 album on RCA, Insights. The piece was constructed in...
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  • Marian McPartland and Patrice Rushen, The Meters, Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band 1976 Dizzy Gillespie, John Faddis, Clark Terry, Cal Tjader Quintet...
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  • Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band '79) was the seventh studio recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. Not to be confused...
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    Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band (2008, Mosaic Records) NOVUS Series ‘70: The Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band (1991, BMG / Novus)...
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  • Insights is the fourth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and was voted "Jazz Album of the Year" in the 1978 Down Beat magazine...
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  • Tricarico, Deane Kincaide, Don Raffell, Harold Feldman, Hymie Schertzer, Lew Tabackin, Paul Ricci, Sid Cooper, Buzz Brauner, Wally Kane, Walt Levinsky Trombone:...
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  • European Memoirs (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
    Memoir in Japan) is the tenth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. Akiyoshi was nominated for a 1983 Grammy award in the Best...
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    Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin – Desert Lady Fantasy (BMG Victor) 1984: Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin – Ten Gallon Shuffle (Ascent Records) 1986: Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin...
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  • Monopoly Game (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
    recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. The three tracks, "Kyoto Paradox", Caribbean Dream" and "Urban Rhapsody"...
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  • Woods Album Thad Jones and Mel Lewis – New Life Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin Big Band – Long Yellow Road Dizzy Gillespie and Machito – Afro-Cuban...
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  • Ten Gallon Shuffle (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
    Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin (following 13 previous releases by the Los Angeles–based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band). The composition...
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  • Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan) (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
    Courtesan (Oirantan) is the third recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It is also sometimes referred to by the title HANA KAI TAN...
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  • Live at Newport '77 (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
    Newport '77 was the second live recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and was followed by another release, Live at Newport II recorded...
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    Severinsen, an ensemble that included other jazz greats such as reed man Lew Tabackin, drummer Ed Shaughnessy, saxophonist & arranger Tommy Newsom as well...
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  • The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
    releases of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. All songs orchestrated by Toshiko...
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    Benny Goodman, Gil Evans, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin, and, most famously, Charles Mingus in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
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