title: Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band album)
text: # Long Yellow Road (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band album)
  
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  Long Yellow Road is the second album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was named Best Jazz Album of the year by Stereo Review magazine. In 1976, the album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band.
  
  "Long Yellow Road" is the title of two other albums by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio (1961) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet (1970).
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All music is composed by Toshiko Akiyoshi except where noted.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
  * Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo
  * Stu Blumberg – trumpet (on "The First Night", Opus No. Zero" and "Children in the Temple Ground")
  * John Madrid – trumpet (on "Long Yellow Road")
  * Lynn Nicholson – trumpet (on "Quadrille Anyone?" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
  * Mike Price – trumpet
  * Don Rader – trumpet
  * Bobby Shew – trumpet
  * Charlie Loper – trombone
  * Bruce Paulson – trombone (except on "Long Yellow Road")
  * Jim Sawyer – trombone (on "Long Yellow Road")
  * Phil Teele – bass trombone
  * Britt Woodman – trombone
  * Dick Spencer – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
  * Gary Foster – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, clarinet (except on "Opus No. Zero")
  * Joe Roccisano – alto saxophone (on "Opus No. Zero")
  * Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone, alto flute, clarinet
  * Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet
  * Gene Cherico – bass
  * Peter Donald – drums (except on "Opus No. Zero" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
  * Chuck Flores – drums (on "Opus No. Zero" and "Since Perry/Yet Another Tear")
  * Tokuko Kaga – vocal (on "Children in the Temple Ground")
  