Let Freedom Swing

Let Freedom Swing

Infobox Album | Name = Let Freedom Swing
Type = Album
Artist = SWR Big Band, Toshiko Akiyoshi


Released = 2008 February
Recorded = 2007 May 9-12, SWR U-Musik-Studio, Villa Berg, Stuttgart
Genre = Jazz
Length = 1:44:39
Label = Hänssler Verlag (Germany)
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = | This album = | Next album =
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi
Type = album
Last album = "50th Anniversary Concert in Japan"
(2006)
This album = "Let Freedom Swing"
(2008)
Next album = "Vintage..."
(2008)

"Let Freedom Swing" is a big band jazz album recorded by the SWR Big Band with Toshiko Akiyoshi as guest pianist/conductor. The album was released as a 2 disk CD in February 2008 by Hänssler Verlag in Germany and includes performances of 12 Akiyoshi compositions.

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi:
# "Drum Conference" (3rd movement) – 13:28
# "Repose" – 5:16
# "Harlequin's Tear" – 7:16
# "Kogun" – 8:10
# "Feast in Milano" – 8:15
# "Let Freedom Swing" – 9:42
# "Lady Liberty" – 7:24
# "Pollination" – 13:08
# "I Know Who Loves You" – 5:48
# "Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health" – 5:48
# "Song For The Harvest" – 7:24
# "Epilogue: Hope" – 4:50
# "Harlequin's Tear" (live bonus track) – 7:35

Personnel

*Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
*Decebal Badila – bass
*Holger Nell – drums
*Farouk Gomati – percussion
*Klaus Graf – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone
*Axel Kühn – alto saxophone, flute, soprano saxophone
*Andreas Maile – tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone
*Jörg Kaufmann – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo flute
*Pierre Paquette – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
*Karl Farrent – trumpet
*Claus Reichstaller – trumpet
*Frank Wellert – trumpet
*Felice Civitareale – trumpet
*Rudolf Reindl – trumpet
*Marc Godfroid – trombone
*Ian Cumming – trombone
*Ernst Hutter – trombone
*Georg Maus – trombone

*Dagmar Claus – speaker (on track 6, Let Freedom Swing)

References / External Links

* [http://www.swrbigband.de SWR Big Band home page]
* [http://www.haenssler-classic.de/ Hänssler Verlag]
*Hänssler CD 93.203


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