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Toshiko At Mocambo - The Historic Mocambo Session'54 Vol.3
| Recorded | Jul 27-28, 1954 |
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| Label | Polydor |
| Released | 1954 |
| Personnel | 8 credited players |
The record
Two days in July 1954 caught Akiyoshi trading choruses with a teenage Sadao Watanabe, years before either led their own bands. Postwar Tokyo jazz working out the bebop vocabulary firsthand, preserved on this rare Polydor reissue.
Session personnel
- Akitoshi Igarashi — alto saxophone
- Keiichiro Ebihara — alto saxophone
- Sadao Watanabe — alto saxophone
- Goh Ueda — bass
- Jun Shimizu — drums
- Kanji Harada — drums
- Toshiko Akiyoshi — piano
- Akira Miyazawa — tenor saxophone
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
| 1976 | Polydor — MONO |
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