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Jazz

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Big band

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Album

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 Hiroshima - Rising From The Abyss is the eighth audio recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. It was released in 2001 by Video Arts Music in Japan and True Life in the USA. Tracks 2~7 form the "Hiroshima - Rising From The Abyss" Suite.

Track listing

All songs composed and orchestrated by Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko Akiyoshi

is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...

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1. "Long Yellow Road" – 1:53
2. "Futility – Tragedy" – 15:30
3. "Futility – Tragedy"
4. "Survivor Tales" – 21:16
5. "Survivor Tales"
6. "Survivor Tales"
7. "Hope" – 6:10
8. "Wishing Peace" – 7:45

Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi
  Toshiko Akiyoshi
  is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...
  
   – piano
• Lew Tabackin
  Lew Tabackin
  Lew Tabackin is a jazz flautist and a tenor saxophonist. He is married to Toshiko Akiyoshi, who is a jazz pianist and a composer/arranger.-Biography:...
  
   – tenor saxophone, flute
• Tom Christensen – tenor saxophone, flute
• Dave Pietro
  Dave Pietro
  Dave Pietro is a jazz saxophonist who plays alto saxophone. He started playing at age 11 and was first recorded with his school's band by Clark Terry. He received his bachelor's in music from the University of North Texas where he was a member of the world renowned One O'Clock Lab Band...
  
   – alto saxophone, flute
• Jim Snidero
  Jim Snidero
  Jim Snidero is an American jazz saxophonist.Snidero studied at the University of North Texas before moving to New York City in 1981. After touring with Jack McDuff, he joined Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra in the early 1980s in New York, working in the group for twenty years...
  
   – alto saxophone, flute
• Scott Robinson
  Scott Robinson (jazz musician)
  Scott Robinson is an American jazz musician. Robinson is best known for his work with various styles of saxophone, but has also performed with the clarinet, flute, and sarrusophone, along with other, more obscure instruments....
  
   – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
• Mike Ponella – trumpet
• Jim O'Conner – trumpet
• John Eckert – trumpet
• Jim Rotondi
  Jim Rotondi
  James Robert Rotondi is an American jazz trumpeter, educator and conductor.Born in Butte, Montana and the youngest of 5 siblings, Rotondi lives in Graz, Austria and performs there and internationally with several groups, as well as being a Professor at the University for Music and Dramatic Arts...
  
   – trumpet
• Scott Whitfield – trombone
• Steve Armour – trombone
• Pat Hallaran – trombone
• Tim Newman – bass trombone
• Paul Gill – bass
• Andy Watson – drums
• Valtinho – percussion

Special guests:

• George Kawaguchi – drums
• Jang-Hyun Won – traditional Korean flute (daegeum
  Daegeum
  The daegeum is a large bamboo transverse flute used in traditional Korean music. It has a buzzing membrane that gives it a special timbre...
  
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• Ryoko Shigemori – reading