| Hope | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | Toshiko Akiyoshi |
| Cover: | Hope_ToshikoAkiyoshi.jpg |
| Released: | 8 February 2006 |
| Recorded: | 10, 12 December 2005 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 56:19 |
| Label: | Nippon Crown |
| Prev Title: | New York Sketch Book |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
Hope is a jazz album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded by Nippon Crown Records in December, 2005 and released in 2006.
All songs composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi except as noted:
| Hope (希望) | |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Toshiko Akiyoshi & Monday Michiru |
| Album: | Hope |
| Released: | 2006 December, Japan |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Nippon Crown |
| Lyricist: | Shuntarō Tanikawa, English translation by Monday Michiru. |
A CD single, "Hope (希望)" was also released by Nippon Crown and includes the title track version from the album with two new vocal versions - one in Japanese and one in English - sung by Akiyoshi's daughter, Monday Michiru.[1] [2] 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.
"Hope" composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese Lyrics by Shuntarō Tanikawa, vocals and English translation by Monday Michiru.