Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9798765109007 |
| ISBN10: | 8765109007 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | pages |
| Size: | 196x127 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band?s Kogun
Series:
33 1/3 Japan;
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication: 14 November 2024
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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Long description:
A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.
In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the Philippine jungle where he had hidden for three decades, unconvinced that World War II had ended. Later that year, the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band released its first album, Kogun ("solitary soldier"), the title track of which adopted music from medieval Japanese no theater for the first time in a jazz context as aural commemoration of his experience. At a time when big band jazz was mostly a vehicle for nostalgia and no longer regarded as a vital art, the album was heralded as a revelation. Kogun elevated Akiyoshi's reputation as a brilliant composer/arranger and earned Tabackin acclaim as a compelling, versatile improviser on tenor saxophone and flute.
In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the Philippine jungle where he had hidden for three decades, unconvinced that World War II had ended. Later that year, the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band released its first album, Kogun ("solitary soldier"), the title track of which adopted music from medieval Japanese no theater for the first time in a jazz context as aural commemoration of his experience. At a time when big band jazz was mostly a vehicle for nostalgia and no longer regarded as a vital art, the album was heralded as a revelation. Kogun elevated Akiyoshi's reputation as a brilliant composer/arranger and earned Tabackin acclaim as a compelling, versatile improviser on tenor saxophone and flute.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Lone Soldier
2. The Long Yellow Road
3. The Band
4. The Record
5. The Title Track
6. The Reckoning
Epilogue: The Legacy
References
Abbreviations
Interviews/Email Correspondence
Select Discography
Notes
Index
Introduction
1. The Lone Soldier
2. The Long Yellow Road
3. The Band
4. The Record
5. The Title Track
6. The Reckoning
Epilogue: The Legacy
References
Abbreviations
Interviews/Email Correspondence
Select Discography
Notes
Index
