Toshiko at Mocambo

Toshiko At Mocambo
Live album by Toshiko Akiyoshi
Recorded Mocambo Club, Yokohama, Japan, 1954 July 27, 28
Genre Jazz
Length 49:16
Label Rockwell / Polydor
Producer Kiyoshi Iwami, Shoichi Yui
Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
Toshiko's Piano
(1954)
Toshiko at Mocambo
(1954)
The Toshiko Trio
(1956)
3 CD compilation / re-issue
Complete session

The album Toshiko at Mocambo (full title, Toshiko at Mocambo, The Historic Mocambo Session '54, Volume 3) was recorded by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi at the Mocambo club in Yokohama, Japan in the summer of 1954. All four tracks from this recording as well as additional tracks from the same all-night live session with and without Akiyoshi were released on the 3 CD Rockwell – Polydor / Universal album, The Complete Historic Mocambo Session '54 – including, reportedly,[1] a performance of "It's Only a Paper Moon" with Akiyoshi attempting to fill in on bass.

Track listing

LP side A

  1. "Fine and Dandy" (Swift, James) – 15:11
  2. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Duke, Latouche, Fetter) – 8:52

LP side B

  1. "Donna Lee" (Parker) – 9:41
  2. "Air Conditioning" (Parker) – 15:32

Personnel

References

  1. Liner notes from The Complete Historic Mocambo Sessions, '54 (rockwell-records.com)

External links



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