United Notions Explained

United Notions
Type:album
Artist:Toshiko Akiyoshi
Cover:UnitedNotions_ToshikoAkiyoshi.jpg
Released:1958
Recorded:June 13, 1958
Genre:Jazz
Length:39:22
Label:MetroJazz Records
E 1001
Producer:Leonard Feather
Prev Title:The Many Sides of Toshiko
Prev Year:1957
Next Title:The Toshiko – Mariano Quartet
Next Year:1961

The jazz album United Notions with Toshiko and her International Jazz Sextet was recorded in New York in 1958 and released on the Metrojazz label.[1] [2] The recording features pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi with Nat Adderley or Doc Severinsen alternating on cornet/trumpet, Bobby Jaspar playing tenor and baritone saxophone and flute, Rolf Kühn on alto saxophone and clarinet, René Thomas on guitar, Bert Dale on drums and John Drew on bass.

The album has been reissued on CD by the Spanish label Fresh Sound. The cover of this issue includes a photograph of Doc Severinsen, the only player whose photo was not included on the original MetroJazz LP cover.

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Broadway" (Bird, McRae, Woode) – 6:48
  2. "Sukiyaki" (Jaspar) – 6:30
  3. "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Pettiford) – 6:50

LP side B

  1. "United Notions" (Akiyoshi) – 6:19
  2. "Civilized Folk" (Freedman) – 4:15
  3. "Strike Up the Band" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:24
  4. "Jane" (Freedman) – 4:16

Personnel

References / external links

Specific
  1. http://www.bsnpubs.com/mgm/metrojazz.html Both Sides Now: MetroJazz Album Discography
  2. http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_MetroJazz.htm Jazzlists: MetroJazz discography