The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: Strive for Jive is a live video recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin in a jazz club setting. The video was apparently recorded in the mid 1980s in Chicago and first released on VHS video tape around 1993 and on DVD in 2009.
Track listing All songs composed and orchestrated by Toshiko Akiyoshi: "Yellow Is Mellow" "Strive For Jive" "Quadrille, Anyone?" "Autumn Sea" "Warning: Success May Be Hazardous To Your Health" "Strive For Jive" (Reprise)
Personnel Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo Walt Weiskopf – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute Frank Wess – alto saxophone, clarinet, flute Jim Snidero – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute Ed Xiques – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute Brian Lynch – trumpet Joe Mosello – trumpet John Eckert – trumpet Chris Pasin – trumpet Dave Panichi – trombone Hart Smith – trombone Bruce Otter – trombone Matt Finders – bass trombone Dennis Irwin – bass Jeff Hirschfield – drums
References V.I.E.W. Video 1336 (cover / credits) Yanow, Scott. Allmusic [ (link)] Accessed 30 July 2007.
External links Rotten Tomatoes Promotional video clip posted by publisher link