Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's Porgy And Bess

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Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess"

Studio album by

Toshiko Akiyoshi

Released

4 January 2016

Recorded

20, 21 June 2015

Studio

Avatar Studio, New York

Genre

Jazz

Label

Studio Songs

Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology

Jazz Conversations
(2015)

Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess"
(2016)

My Long Yellow Road
(2017)

Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" is a 2016 recording by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi.^[1]

Track listing

"Summertime"
"I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'"
"I Loves You, Porgy"
"My Man's Gone Now"
"A Woman Is A Sometime Thing"
"It Ain't Necessarily So"
"Bess, You Is My Woman Now"
"Bess, O Where's My Bess"
"A Red-Haired Woman"

all music composed by George Gershwin

Personnel

Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
Paul Gill – bass (tracks 2, 8, 9)
Yasushi Nakamura (中村恭士) – bass (tracks 5, 6, 7)
George Mraz – bass (tracks 3, 4)
Mark Taylor – drums (tracks 4~8)
Rodney Green – drums (tracks 2, 9)

References

^ Toshiko Akiyoshi = 秋吉敏子 - Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess" = ポーギーとベス, 2016-04-06, retrieved 2023-07-02

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Solo, Duo, Trio, Quartet, etc. recordings as leader/co-leader	Toshiko's Piano / Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi Toshiko at Mocambo [live] The Toshiko Trio Her Trio, Her Quartet Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport [live] The Many Sides of Toshiko United Notions The Toshiko–Mariano Quartet Long Yellow Road (Trio) / Toshiko Akiyoshi Recital Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals Live at Birdland [live] Toshiko–Mariano Quartet (in West Side) East & West The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos / With Steve Kuhn, Together Miwaku No Jazz (Fascinating Jazz) Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band / Toshiko & Modern Jazz Lullabies for You At Top of the Gate [live] In Japan / Long Yellow Road (Quartet) [live] Jazz, the Personal Dimension Meditation Sumie / The Personal Aspect In Jazz Solo Piano Dedications Dedications II Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn / A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn / Dedications III Finesse Notorious Tourist from the East / Toshiko Plays Toshiko Just Be Bop Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio, 1980 In Rikuzentakata [live] Tuttie Flutie Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Time Stream Interlude Four Seasons Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream Chic Lady Dig At Maybeck [live] Night and Dream Yes, I Have No 4 Beat Today Time Stream: Toshiko Plays Toshiko Live at Blue Note Tokyo '97 [live] Sketches of Japan Solo Live at the Kennedy Center [live] New York Sketch Book Hope 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan [live] Let Freedom Swing Vintage Solo Live 2004 [live] Classic Encounters Jazz Conversations Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's Porgy And Bess My Long Yellow Road The Eternal Duo! [live]
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band	Kogun Long Yellow Road Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan) Road Time [live] Insights March of the Tadpoles Live at Newport '77 [live] Live at Newport II [live] Salted Gingko Nuts Sumi-e Farewell From Toshiko with Love / Tanuki's Night Out European Memoirs
Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra feat. Lew Tabackin	Ten Gallon Shuffle Wishing Peace Carnegie Hall Concert [live] Desert Lady – Fantasy Four Seasons of Morita Village Monopoly Game Tribute to Duke Ellington Hiroshima – Rising from the Abyss [live] Last Live in Blue Note Tokyo [live] Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra in Shanghai [live]
Compilations	1961 Shibuya Jazz Classics Best Gold ‘89~’96 Best Silver ‘89~’96 The World of Toshiko Akiyoshi NOVUS Series ‘70: The Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band Eternal Best / Best 8 The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Video recordings	My Elegy Strive for Jive In Shanghai The Eternal Duo!
Songs	"Hope"
Other	Toshiko Akiyoshi discography Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band discography

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