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Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band’s Kogun [EPUB ebook] 

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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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 160 ● ISBN 9798765109021 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) ● Published 2024 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 9594196 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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