Toshiko Akiyoshi & the Swr Big Band - Let Freedom Swing [Double Digipack] AEC Video New York-based quintet escaped to

New York-based quintet escaped to the Poconos to record with a few handles of whiskey

Pi-Hsien Chen - Stockhausen-Beethoven-Klavierstuche-Sonaten

and his sequence of Themes and Variations are his best-known compositions

English chamber-folk

Holly and Mike weave their way through a program of originals and seldom heard standards

Toshiko Akiyoshi & the Swr Big Band - Let Freedom Swing [Double Digipack] AEC Video New York-based quintet escaped toThe orchestra leader, composer, arranger and pianist of world renown recorded 13 of her own pieces with the SWR Big Band, covering a broad spectrum from bebop powerplay to soft yearning ballads. Akiyoshi's compositional style is unmistakable. She mixes bebop, & big band jazz with Japanese elements of music. In May 2007 she had her first opportunity to work with the SWR Big Band.