Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

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.>

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E. Taylor Atkins

Product details

• Authors: E Taylor Atkins, E. Taylor Atkins
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2024
• EAN: 9798765109014
• ISBN: 9798765109014
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 10 mm
• Series: 33 1/3 Japan
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs