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Nicholson, Stuart.[1]"Essential"
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

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 Award 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

Guest Artists:

  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.


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