1996 - Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band - Strive For Jive 

the bari solo is beyond awesome and I know Scott (the trombonist) and he's is just an amazing guy not to mention an amazing player! This band was and is top notch!

Scott Whitfield, trombonist, Downbeat Critics poll "Rising Star", digital edition, Aug 2018. Kudos, some ears are open!

I have a photo with Toshiko and Lew Tabackin in a wonderful show of the band at Blue Note. Good Times!!!.

Estupenda big band!!!

Sounds good, with perfect solos!

Trombonist is as good as it gets (though Britt Woodman in the 70s' band hit notes a fifth above that Ab that ends the piece). And it sounds like he gets a true, out-front sound (when you heard Al Grey and Curtis Fuller playing in the same band, you appreciated the difference--Al could have played without a mic and been heard in a football stadium).

Yeah, Andy.

Big crowd!

These guys defied the period-piece electrified sounds and punched-up bass of those '70s things I never play. They could be Supersax on steroids or a five-part flute ensemble, and this is one of the best examples ever of superb playing on I Got Rhythm changes. Lew sounds better here because he doesn't go for any of that altissimo screeching that was a fashionable holdover from the '60s. He was the white Rollins plus killer flute--so good the danger was the band could seem like his showcase.

Trumpet solo is Andy Gravish. One of the very best. Lives in New York. (slight neck puff is NOT the dizzy thing)

I'm exhausted

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@eatyerbeans Way!!! Like, omg!

What about the writing? This is Toshiko's band and her music

The solo trumpet had the Dizzy thing going .... breathing from the neck. It's 13 years later ... I wonder if his career was cut short. Anyone know who it is ? I agree that lead trumpet is high calibre.

This bunch has connections with God.

Rhythm? Not much here either. The ensemble passages are happening however.