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E. Taylor Atkins
Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band’s Kogun
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ISBN: 9798765109007
Author : E. Taylor Atkins
Published: 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages: 144
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 196.85×127
Author : E. Taylor Atkins
Published: 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages: 144
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 196.85×127
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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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