TOSHIKO AKIOSHI Tuning Up

TOSHIKO AKIOSHI-LEW TABAKIN

Tuning Up

Road Time was the first live concert recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The recording was made at three concerts in Tōkyō and Ōsaka, during a 1976 Japan tour and the double album received a 1977 Grammy nomination in the "Best Jazz Performance - Big Band" category.

• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano

• Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone and flute

• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone

• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone

• Gary Foster – alto saxophone

• Bill Byrne – baritone saxophone

• Steven Huffsteter – trumpet

• Bobby Shew – trumpet

• Richard Cooper – trumpet

• Mike Price – trumpet

• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone

• Jim Sawyer – trombone

• Jimmy Knepper – trombone

• Phil Teele – bass trombone

• Don Baldwin – bass

• Peter Donald – drums