Let Freedom Swing

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Let Freedom Swing
Let Freedom Swing cover
Studio album by SWR Big Band, Toshiko Akiyoshi
Released 2008 February
Recorded 2007 May 9-12, SWR U-Musik-Studio, Villa Berg, Stuttgart
Genre Jazz
Length 1:44:39
Label Hänssler Verlag (Germany)
Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
50th Anniversary Concert in Japan
(2006)		 Let Freedom Swing
(2008)

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 of 2008 by Hänssler Verlag in Germany and includes performances of 12 Akiyoshi compositions.

[edit] Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:

  1. "Drum Conference" (3rd movement) – 13:28
  2. "Repose" – 5:16
  3. "Harlequin's Tear" – 7:16
  4. "Kogun" – 8:10
  5. "Feast in Milano" – 8:15
  6. "Let Freedom Swing" – 9:42
  7. "Lady Liberty" – 7:24
  8. "Pollination" – 13:08
  9. "I Know Who Loves You" – 5:48
  10. "Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health" – 5:48
  11. "Song For The Harvest" – 7:24
  12. "Epilogue: Hope" – 4:50
  13. "Harlequin's Tear" (live bonus track) – 7:35

[edit] 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)

[edit] References / External Links

v • d • e
Toshiko Akiyoshi discography
Toshiko Akiyoshi
recordings as
leader or co-leader
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  • Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn / A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn / Dedications III  • Finesse  • Notorious Tourist from the East / Toshiko Plays Toshiko  • Just Be Bop  • 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  • Let Freedom Swing  • ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi–
Lew Tabackin Big Band
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Jazz Orchestra
Compilations
Video recordings


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