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Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band
Live album by Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Released	1976
Recorded	Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo and Sankei Hall and Kosei Nenkin Kaikan in Osaka, 1976 January 30 and February 7, 8
Genre	Jazz
Length	86:52
Label	Victor (Japan), RCA Victor (U.S.)
Producer	Hiroshi Isaka
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology
Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan) (1976) Road Time, Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band (1976) Insights (1976)
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RCA Victor (U.S.) LP album cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic link
Nicholson, Stuart.	"Essential"
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

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.

Track listing

LP 1 side A

1. "Tuning Up" – 16:48
2. "Warning: Success May Be Hazardous To Your Health" – 7:33

LP 1 side B

1. "Henpecked Old Man" – 22:54

LP 2 side A

1. "Soliloquy" – 8:37
2. "Kogun" – 10:40

LP 2 side B

1. "Since Perry" / "Yet Another Tear" – 13:46
2. "Road Time Shuffle" – 6:34

All arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi.
All songs composed by Akiyoshi except "Yet Another Tear" (Tabackin).

Personnel

• 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

Guest Artists:

• Kisaku Katada – kotsuzumi (on "Kogun")
• Yutaka Yazaki – ōtsuzumi (on "Kogun")

References / External Links

1. Nicholson, Stuart. The Essential Jazz Records, Volume 2: Modernism to Postmodernism, Road Time (p226~229). Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000.
2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 7. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

• RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-9115 ~ RCA-9116
• Allmusic
• 1977 Grammy nomination, Best Jazz Performance - Big Band (LA Times link)

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