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, .
All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:LP side A
LP side B
Guest Artists: