''Let Freedom Swing'' is a

big band A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and ...

jazz album recorded by the SWR Big Band with

Toshiko Akiyoshi is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in ''Down Beat'' magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, sh ...

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

: # "Drum Conference" (3rd movement) – 13:28 # "Repose" – 5:16 # "Harlequin's Tear" – 7:16 # "Kogun" – 8:10 # "Feast in Milano" – 8:15 # "Let Freedom Swing" – 9:42 # "Lady Liberty" – 7:24 # "Pollination" – 13:08 # "I Know Who Loves You" – 5:48 # "Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health" – 5:48 # "Song For The Harvest" – 7:24 # "Epilogue: Hope" – 4:50 # "Harlequin's Tear" (live bonus track) – 7:35

Personnel

– 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

SWR Big Band home pageHänssler Verlag
*Hänssler CD 93.203 Toshiko Akiyoshi albums 2008 albums {{2000s-jazz-album-stub