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Let Freedom Swing

{{Infobox album

| name = Let Freedom Swing

| type = Album

| artist = SWR Big Band, Toshiko Akiyoshi

| cover = LetFreedomSwing_SWRBigBand.jpg

| alt =

| released = February 2008

| recorded = 9–12 May 2007,

| venue =

| studio = SWR U-Musik-Studio, Villa Berg, Stuttgart

| genre = Jazz

| length = 1:44:39

| label = Hänssler Verlag (Germany)

| producer =

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| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi

| type = studio album

| prev_title = 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan

| prev_year = 2006

| title = Let Freedom Swing

| year = 2008

| next_title = Vintage...

| next_year = 2008

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{{Extra chronology

| artist = SWR Big Band

| type = studio album

| prev_title = Voyage, Don Menza and the SWR Big Band

| prev_year = 2007

| title = Let Freedom Swing

| year = 2008

| next_title = Bald gras’ ich am Neckar

| next_year = 2009

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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:

  1. "Drum Conference" (3rd movement) – 13:28
  2. "Repose" – 5:16
  3. "Harlequin's Tear" – 7:16
  4. "Kogun" – 8:10
  5. "Feast in Milano" – 8:15
  6. "Let Freedom Swing" – 9:42
  7. "Lady Liberty" – 7:24
  8. "Pollination" – 13:08
  9. "I Know Who Loves You" – 5:48
  10. "Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health" – 5:48
  11. "Song For The Harvest" – 7:24
  12. "Epilogue: Hope" – 4:50
  13. "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)

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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Category:2008 albums

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