Kogun Explained

Kogun
Type:	Album
Artist:	Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Cover:	Kogun_TALTBigBand_RVC.jpg
Released:	August 1974
Recorded:	Sage & Sand Studio Hollywood, California, 3–4 April 1974
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	41:23
Label:	Victor (Japan), RCA Victor (U.S.)
Producer:	Toshiko Akiyoshi and Hiroshi Isaka
Next Title:	Long Yellow Road
Next Year:	1975

is the first album recorded by the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was released in Japan by Victor in 1974 and received the Swing Journal Silver Disk prize for that year. It was later released on RCA Victor in the USA and elsewhere and received a 1979 Grammy nomination 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 AkiyoshiLP side A

1. "Elegy" – 9:13
2. "Memory" – 10:24

LP side B

1. "Kogun" – 6:49
2. "American Ballad" – 5:49
3. "Henpecked Old Man" – 9:08

Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
• Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone
• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
• Gary Foster – alto saxophone
• Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone
• Bobby Shew – trumpet
• John Madrid – trumpet
• Don Rader – trumpet
• Mike Price – trumpet
• Charles Loper – trombone
• Jim Sawyer – trombone
• Britt Woodman – trombone
• Phil Teele – bass trombone
• Gene Cherico – bass
• Peter Donald – drums

Other

• Scott Ellsworth – voice (on "Memory")

References / external links

• RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-6246
• [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r134362/review|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic]
• 1974 Swing Journal (Japanese jazz magazine) Silver Disk award (Japanese link)