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Toshiko Akiyoshi - Let Freedom Swing [Double Digipack]

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Format: CD
Catalog: 93203
Rel. Date: 06/10/2008
UPC: 4010276020424

Let Freedom Swing [Double Digipack]
Artist: Toshiko Akiyoshi
Format: CD
New: Available to Order - Not In Our Store $28.99
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Drum Conference (3rd Movement)
2. Repose
3. Harlequin's Tear
4. Kogun
5. Feast in Milano
6. Let Freedom Swing

DISC: 2

1. Lady Liberty
2. Polination
3. I Know Who Loves You
4. Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health
5. Song for the Harvest
6. Epilogue: Hope
7. Harlequin's Tear - (live)

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The orchestra leader, composer, arranger and pianist of world renown recorded 13 of her own pieces with the SWR Big Band, covering a broad spectrum from bebop powerplay to soft yearning ballads. Akiyoshi's compositional style is unmistakable. She mixes bebop, & big band jazz with Japanese elements of music. In May 2007 she had her first opportunity to work with the SWR Big Band.
        
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