Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

von E. Taylor Atkins

156 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Bloomsbury Academic
• ISBN: 9798765109007
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2024
• Größe: 203 x 127 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC