Kogun
Context
Title track of the first album by the big band of Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin, composed and arranged by the pianist. Released first in Japan, where it received Swing Journal's Silver Disk in 1974, it later received a Grammy nomination after its American release. Akiyoshi is credited with both the composition and the arrangement.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Modern big bands, Japanese jazz. Among the origins and influences of Modern big bands: Swing, big bands, Third stream.