{"product_id":"9798765109014","title":"Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun by E.Taylor Atkins","description":"A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history but also its part in public remembrance of World War II in Japan.   In 1974 a Japanese soldier emerged from the Philippine jungle where he had hidden for three decades, unconvinced that World War II had ended. Later that year, the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band released its first album, Kogun (\"solitary soldier\"), the title track of which adopted music from medieval Japanese no theater for the first time in a jazz context as aural commemoration of his experience. At a time when big band jazz was mostly a vehicle for nostalgia and no longer regarded as a vital art, the album was heralded as a revelation. Kogun elevated Akiyoshi's reputation as a brilliant composer\/arranger and earned Tabackin acclaim as a compelling, versatile improviser on tenor saxophone and flute.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311427465589,"sku":"9798765109014","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798765109014.jpg?v=1762817736","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9798765109014","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}