Salted Gingko Nuts

{{Infobox album

| name = Salted Gingko Nuts

| type = Album

| artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

| cover = SaltedGingkoNuts_TALTBigBand.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1978

| recorded = Devonshire Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California, November 15–16, 1978

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 41:06

| label = Victor (Japan) / Baystate Records

| producer = Hiroshi Isaka

| prev_title = Live at Newport II

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title = Sumi-e

| next_year = 1979

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative cover

| type = album

| cover = TALT_SaltedGingkoNuts_ASC1002.jpg

| border = yes

| alt =

| caption = Ascent LP album cover

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r365686|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic.com, 365686]

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}

|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 6

}}

}}

{{sic|Salted Gingko Nuts}}, also known by its Japanese title SHIO GIN NAN ({{Nihongo2|塩銀杏}} = salted ginkgo nuts), is the sixth studio album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. Released in 1978, the album received the 1979 Silver Disk award from Japan's Swing Journal magazine."[http://jazzcd.jp/award/1979.htm スイングジャーナル主催 第13回 ジャズ・ディスク大賞受賞作 (1979年)" (Swing Journal presents the 13th annual Jazz Disk awards...)], jazzcd.jp. Accessed 2012 November 4