Kogun (Japanese: 孤軍) is the first album recorded by the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was released in Japan by Victor in 1974 and received the Swing Journal Silver Disk prize for that year. It was later released on RCA Victor in the USA and elsewhere and received a 1979 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band.

Kogun
Studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Released	August 1974
Recorded	Sage & Sand Studio Hollywood, California, 1974 April 3~4
Genre	Jazz
Length	41:23
Label	Victor (Japan), RCA Victor (U.S.)
Producer	Toshiko Akiyoshi and Hiroshi Isaka
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band chronology
Kogun (1974) Long Yellow Road (1975)
Alternative cover
RCA (U.S.) LP cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

All tracks from this album are also included on the 2008 Mosaic 3 CD compilation, Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band.

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Toshiko Akiyoshi

LP side A

1. "Elegy" – 9:13
2. "Memory" – 10:24

LP side B

1. "Kogun" – 6:49
2. "American Ballad" – 5:49
3. "Henpecked Old Man" – 9:08

Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
• Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone
• Tom Peterson – tenor saxophone
• Dick Spencer – alto saxophone
• Gary Foster – alto saxophone
• Bill Perkins – baritone saxophone
• Bobby Shew – trumpet
• John Madrid – trumpet
• Don Rader – trumpet
• Mike Price – trumpet
• Charles Loper – trombone
• Jim Sawyer – trombone
• Britt Woodman – trombone
• Phil Teele – bass trombone
• Gene Cherico – bass
• Peter Donald – drums

Other

• Scott Ellsworth – voice (on "Memory")

References / external links

• RCA Victor Records RVC RCA-6246
• Allmusic
• 1974 Swing Journal (Japanese jazz magazine) Silver Disk award (Japanese link)