Insights (Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band) | ||||
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Studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band | ||||
Released | 1976 | |||
Recorded | RCA Studio 'A', Hollywood, California, June 22, - June 24, 1976 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 40:18 | |||
Label | Victor (Japan), RCA (U.S.) | |||
Producer | Hiroshi Isaka | |||
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology | ||||
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RCA (U.S.) LP album cover
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |
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 critic's poll. It received the Swing Journal magazine 1976 Gold Disk prize in Japan and was nominated for a 1978 Grammy award in the USA for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band.
All tracks from this album are also included on the 2008 Mosaic 3 CD compilation, Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band.
LP side A
LP side B
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