Miwaku No Jazz Explained

Miwaku No Jazz
Type:	album
Artist:	Toshiko Akiyoshi
Cover:	MiwakuNoJazz_ToshikoAkiyoshi.jpg
Released:	1963
Recorded:	1963
Venue:	Tokyo, Japan
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Victor Japan
Prev Title:	The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos
Prev Year:	1963
Next Title:	Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band
Next Year:	1964

Miwaku No Jazz (Japanese title, = Fascinating Jazz) is an album featuring Toshiko Mariano's (Toshiko Akiyoshi's) piano in a small jazz combo setting. It was originally released in Japan in 1963 by Victor Records and was reissued on CD in 2006 by Think! Records.

Track listing

LP side A

1. "After You've Gone"
2. "Going Home"
3. "Love is a Many Splendored Thing"
4. "Lover, Come Back to Me"
5. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
6. "SAIKAI"

LP side B

1. "It's All Right with Me"
2. "My Melancholy Baby"
3. "La Mer"
4. "I Can't Stop Loving You"
5. "Les Feuilles Mortes"
6. "Bewitched"

Personnel

• Toshiko Mariano – piano
• Charlie Mariano – alto saxophone (except tracks A1, 3, 6, B3)
• Akira Miyazawa (宮沢昭) – tenor saxophone, flute (tracks A1, B5)
• Akira Fukuhara (福原彰) – trumpet (tracks A4, B1)
• Masanaga Harada (原田政長) – bass (tracks A1, 3, 5, B5, 6)
• Yasuo Arakawa (荒川康男) – bass (except tracks A1, 3, 5, B5, 6)
• Takeshi Inomata (猪俣猛) – drums

References

• Victor JV-5084
• Victor SJL-5060
• Think! THCD-028