Lew Tabackin’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American musician
Is Musician 
Conductor 
Jazz musician 
Saxophonist 
Bandmaster 
From United States of America 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 26 March 1940, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Age: 80 years

Lew Tabackin (born March 26, 1940 in Philadelphia) is a jazz flutist and tenor saxophonist. He is married to Toshiko Akiyoshi, who is a jazz pianist and a composer/arranger.

Biography

Tabackin first took up the flute at the age of 12, followed by the tenor saxophone at age 15. He has citied Al Cohn and Coleman Hawkins as influences on his sax playing, while his flute role models include classical players such as William Kincaid, Julius Baker, and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Tabackin studied flute at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and also studied music with composer Vincent Persichetti. In 1962 he graduated from the Conservatory and, after a stint with the U.S. Army, worked with Tal Farlow. He also worked with Chuck Israels in New York City, and a combo that included Elvin Jones, Donald Byrd, and Roland Hanna. Later he would have a chair in The Dick Cavett Show’s band and The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen. Tabackin moved from New York to California when The Tonight Show relocated in 1972. During this time he played with Shelly Manne and Billy Higgins, among others.

Tabackin met Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1967 while he was playing in Clark Terry’s band and she was invited to sit in for Don Friedman. They formed a quartet in the late 1960s, married in 1969, and in 1973 co-founded the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band in Los Angeles, which later became the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin, playing bebop in Duke Ellington-influenced arrangements and compositions by Akiyoshi. Tabackin was principal soloist for the big band/orchestra from 1973 through 2003.

Lew Tabackin was interviewed by Linus Wyrsch on “The Jazz Hole” for breakthruradio.com in July 2011 – Lew Tabackin Interview by breakthruradio.com

Jazz Foundation of America

Tabackin has become a great supporter of the Jazz Foundation of America in their mission to save the homes and the lives of America’s elderly jazz and blues musicians including musicians that survived Hurricane Katrina. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Foundation since 2002.

Discography

Awards and honors

Grammy award nominations:

  • Best Jazz Instrumental Performance – Big Band: 1976 (Long Yellow Road), 1977 (Road Time), 1978 (Insights), 1979 (Kogun), 1980 (Farewell), 1981 (Tanuki’s Night Out), 1984 (Ten Gallon Shuffle), 1985 (March of the Tadpoles), 1992 (Carnegie Hall Concert), 1994 (Desert Lady / Fantasy).

Stereo Review magazine (US):

  • Jazz Album of the Year: 1976 (Long Yellow Road)

Swing Journal (Japanese jazz magazine) awards:

  • Gold Disk: 1976 (Insights), Silver Disk: 1974 (Kogun), 1979 (Salted Gingko Nuts), 1996 (Four Seasons of Morita Village)
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