Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport

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Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport
Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport cover
Live album by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Leon Sash
Released 1957
Recorded Newport Jazz Festival, 1957 July 5
Genre Jazz
Label Verve Records
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4/5 stars link

Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
Toshiko - Her Trio, Her Quartet
(1956)
Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport
(1957)
The Many Sides of Toshiko
(1957)

The live album Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport was recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 and released on the Verve record label. All 4 Toshiko Akiyoshi tracks are also included on some later re-issues of the Norgran (Verve) recording Toshiko's Piano / Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi.

[edit] Track listing

Toshiko Akiyoshi set (Side 'A'):

  1. "Between Me and Myself" (Akiyoshi)
  2. "Blues for Toshiko" (Akiyoshi)
  3. "I'll Remember April" (Raye, DePaul, Johnston)
  4. "Lover" (Rodgers, Hart)

Leon Sash set (Side 'B'):

  1. "Sash-Kebob" (Sash, Morgan)
  2. "Meant for Brent" (Sash, Robinson)
  3. "Carnegie Horizons" (Shearing)
  4. "Blue Lou" (Mills, Sampson)

[edit] Personnel

Side A:

Side B:

  • Leon Sash – accordion
  • Ted Robinson – tenor saxophone, clarinet
  • Lee Morgan – bass
  • Roger Price – drums

[edit] References / External links