title: The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi
text: # The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi
  
  The Best of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a compilation album of songs taken from BMG Japan releases of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All songs orchestrated by Toshiko Akiyoshi. All songs composed by Akiyoshi except "Tanuki's Night Out" (Lew Tabackin)
  
  * "Long Yellow Road"
  * "Kogun"
  * "Elegy"
  * "Quadrille, Anyone?"
  * "Children in the Temple Ground"
  * "Sumi-e"
  * "Tanuki's Night Out"
  * "Chasing After Love"
  * "Duke for the Ages"
  