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Toshiko Akiyoshi at Maybeck

{{Infobox album

| name = Toshiko Akiyoshi at Maybeck

| type = live

| artist = Toshiko Akiyoshi

| cover = LiveAtMaybeck_ToshikoAkiyoshi.jpg

| alt =

| released = 10 July 1994

| recorded = March 1993

| venue = Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 58:12

| label = Concord Jazz

| producer = Carl Jefferson

| prev_title = Dig

| prev_year = 1993

| next_title = Night and Dream

| next_year = 1994

}}

Toshiko Akiyoshi at Maybeck is a solo jazz piano album recorded by Toshiko Akiyoshi at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California and released on the Concord Jazz record label.{{cite web |url=http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/solo-jazz-piano-at-maybeck-recital-hall.html |title=Solo Jazz Piano at Maybeck Recital Hall: A Treasure Hunt Remembered |last=Asher |first=Don |website=Jazz Profiles |date=July 24, 2013 |access-date=November 8, 2018 }} It is Volume 36 in Concord's "Maybeck Recital Hall Series".

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r208506|pure_url=yes}}

| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD

| rev2Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2002 |pages=18 }}

| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=John |title=The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide |publisher=Random House |year=1999 |pages=11 }}

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In a review for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell called the recording "one of the more individual solo albums in the Maybeck series," and stated that Akiyoshi "has her own distinct ideas" and "is especially compelling when her hands fly off in multiple directions."

Track listing

  1. "Village" (Akiyoshi) – 5:59
  2. "Come Sunday" (Ellington) – 4:37
  3. "Con Alma" (Gillespie) – 5:28
  4. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 7:02
  5. "It Was a Very Good Year" (Drake) – 5:34
  6. "Things We Did Last Summer" (Cahn, Styne) – 7:44
  7. "Old Devil Moon" (Harburg, Lane) – 6:04
  8. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Mills, Parish) – 6:09
  9. "Quadrille, Anyone?" (Akiyoshi) – 5:45
  10. "Tempus Fugit" (Powell) – 3:50

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Category:Toshiko Akiyoshi live albums

Category:1994 live albums

Category:Concord Records live albums

Category:Albums recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall

Category:Solo piano jazz albums

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