Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band album)

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. In 1976, the album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band.

"Long Yellow Road" is the title of two other albums by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1961) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet (1970).

Track listing

Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
• Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo
• Stu Blumberg – trumpet (on "The First Night", Opus No. Zero" and "Children in the Temple Ground")
• John Madrid – trumpet (on "Long Yellow Road")
• Lynn Nicholson – trumpet (on "Quadrille Anyone?" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
• Mike Price – trumpet
• Don Rader – trumpet
• Bobby Shew – trumpet
• Charlie Loper – trombone
• Bruce Paulson – trombone (except on "Long Yellow Road")
• Jim Sawyer – trombone (on "Long Yellow Road")
• Phil Teele – bass trombone
• Britt Woodman – trombone
• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Gary Foster – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet (except on "Opus No. Zero")
• Joe Roccisano – alto saxophone (on "Opus No. Zero")
• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone, alto flute, clarinet
• Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet
• Gene Cherico – bass
• Peter Donald – drums (except on "Opus No. Zero" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
• Chuck Flores – drums (on "Opus No. Zero" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
• Tokuko Kaga – vocal (on "Children in the Temple Ground")

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