Hope (Toshiko Akiyoshi song)

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“Hope (希望)”
Single by Toshiko Akiyoshi & Monday Michiru from the album Hope
Released	2006 December, Japan
Format	CD Maxi single
Genre	Jazz
Label	Nippon Crown

Hope (希望) is a CD single by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and singer Monday Michiru released in Japan on the Nippon Crown Record label. The instrumental version of the song "Hope" was taken from the 2006 Akiyoshi album of the same name, Hope. The composition "Hope" is the closing section of Akiyoshi's "Hiroshima: Rising from the Abyss" suite, first introduced on the 2001 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra album Hiroshima - Rising From The Abyss.

[edit] Formats and track listing

CD single CRCP-10157

1. "Hope" - (Japanese lyrics)
2. "Hope" - (English lyrics)
3. "Hope" - (from the 2006 Toshiko Akiyoshi album Hope)

"Hope" composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese Lyrics by Shuntarō Tanikawa, English translation by Monday Michiru.

[edit] Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi - piano
• Monday Michiru - vocal (tracks 1, 2)

[edit] References / External links

Nippon Crown Records, Japan CRCP-10157

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