European Memoirs

{{Infobox album

| name = European Memoirs

| type = Album

| artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

| cover = EuropeanMemoirs_TALT_RVC.jpg

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| released = 1982

| recorded = Madhatter Studio, Los Angeles, California, September 21–22, 1982

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| genre = Jazz

| length = 41:23

| label = Victor (Japan) / Ascent (US)

| producer = Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin

| prev_title = From Toshiko with Love

| prev_year = 1981

| next_title = -

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| artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra

| type = album

| prev_title = -

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| next_title = Ten Gallon Shuffle

| next_year = 1984

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{{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative cover

| type = Album

| cover = EuropeanMemoirs_TALT_Ascent.jpg

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| caption = Ascent Label cover

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{{Album ratings

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| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}

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European Memoirs (a.k.a. Memoir in Japan) is the tenth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. Akiyoshi was nominated for a 1983 Grammy award in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category for the arrangement of "Remembering Bud" on this album.

This would be the final recording of the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band before the principals moved to New York City in 1982 and formed a new big band, the "Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin" that released nine more albums and two live performance videos before disbanding in 2003.