Insights (album) explained

Insights (Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band)
Type:	Album
Artist:	Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Cover:	Insights_TALTBigBand.jpg
Released:	1976
Recorded:	RCA Studio 'A', Hollywood, California, June 22–24, 1976
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	40:18
Label:	Victor (Japan), RCA Victor (U.S.)
Producer:	Hiroshi Isaka
Prev Title:	Road Time
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	March of the Tadpoles
Next Year:	1977

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, .

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:LP side A

1. "Studio J" – 6:07
2. "Transience" – 4:40
3. "SUMIE" – 7:55

LP side B

1. "Minamata" (suite) – 21:36
   1. "Peaceful Village"
   2. "Prosperity & Consequence"
   3. "Epilogue"

Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
• Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute
• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
• Gary Foster – alto saxophone
• Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone
  • Steven Huffsteter – trumpet Bobby Shew – trumpet
• Mike Price – trumpet
• Richard Cooper – trumpet (except on "Minamata")
• Jerry Hey – trumpet (on "Minamata")
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone Charlie Loper – trombone
• Britt Woodman – trombone
  • • Phil Teele – bass trombone Don Baldwin – bass Peter Donald – drums

Guest Artists:

• Hisao Kanze – utai / Nō chant (on "Minamata")
• Tadao Kamei – ōtsuzumi (on "Minamata")
• Hayao Uzawa – kotsuzumi (on "Minamata")
• (Monday) Michiru Mariano – voice (on "Minamata")
• Hiromitsu Katada – kakko (on "SUMIE")

References / External Links

• RCA Victor Records RVC RVP-6106
• [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r134357|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic]
• 1978 Down Beat critic's poll award winners
• 1978 Grammy nomination, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band (LA Times link)
• 1976 Swing Journal Gold Disk Prize (Japanese link)