Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band’s Kogun

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E. Taylor Atkins (Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Northern Illinois University, USA)

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band’s Kogun

E. Taylor Atkins (Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Northern Illinois University, USA)

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA
14 November 2024

Jazz; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Social & cultural history

Series: 33 1/3 Japan

A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.

In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the Philippine jungle where he had hidden for three decades, unconvinced that World War II had ended. Later that year, the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band released its first album, Kogun (“solitary soldier”), the title track of which adopted music from medieval Japanese no theater for the first time in a jazz context as aural commemoration of his experience. At a time when big band jazz was mostly a vehicle for nostalgia and no longer regarded as a vital art, the album was heralded as a revelation. Kogun elevated Akiyoshi’s reputation as a brilliant composer/arranger and earned Tabackin acclaim as a compelling, versatile improviser on tenor saxophone and flute.

By: E. Taylor Atkins (Distinguished Teaching Professor of History Northern Illinois University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9798765109007
Series: 33 1/3 Japan
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 14 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Lone Soldier 2. The Long Yellow Road 3. The Band 4. The Record 5. The Title Track 6. The Reckoning Epilogue: The Legacy References Abbreviations Interviews/Email Correspondence Select Discography Notes Index

E. Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of A History of Popular Culture in Japan (Bloomsbury 2017; 2nd. ed., 2022), Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (2010), and Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), and editor of Jazz Planet (2003).