Sumi-e (Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band album)

Sumi-e
Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedIruma City Auditorium, Saitama, Japan, 1979 February 2, 3
GenreJazz
Length~32:30 (original LP release)
LabelInsights
ProducerHiroshi Isaka
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology
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(1978)
Sumi-e
(1979)
Farewell
(1980)
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Sumi-e (Sumi-e, Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band '79) was the seventh studio recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. Not to be confused with the 1971 Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet release, Sumie / The Personal Aspect in Jazz. Sumi-e (すみ絵) refers to an East Asian style of brush painting.