Big Bands Behind Barbed Wire – Asian American Jazz Orchestra

Produced: Anthony Brown
Production Assistance: Francis Wong
Recorded by Robert Berenson at San Jose Repertory Theater, San Jose, CA, 8/18/98
Mixed: Robert Berenson and Mark Edwards at Mr. Toad's Studios, San Francisco
Mastered: Michael Yoshida
Design: Anthony Brown and David Barker, graphics by David Barker
Photographs: Andy Nozaka, archival photographs (Manzanar, 1942 by Dorothea Lange, Poston Music Makers, 1945) courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society

E.O. 9066 (excerpt) (Anthony Brown, 1996)
1. Executive Order 9066 (03:12)

LAST DANCE (excerpts) (original music and concept by Mark Izu, 1998)
2. Camp Life (George Yoshida) (04:39)
  Tuxedo Junction (Erskine Hawkins, William Johnson and Julian Dash)
  Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Jonny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen)
3. Jerome Camp (George Yoshida, poem by Lawson Inada) (04:42)
  Buddhahead Blues (Brenda Wong Aoki, poem by Ernest Michio Matsunaga)
4. The Photograph (Brenda Wong Aoki, poem by Janice Mirikitani) (02:59)
5. The Last Dance (George Yoshida) (3:00)
  In a Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington)
6. Kiryoku (Mark Izu and Gary Tsujimoto) (07:32)

E.O. 9066 (excerpts) (Anthony Brown, 1996)
7. Ichikotsu-cho (02:59)
8. Prelude (Truth be Told) (04:54)
9. Intro to Rhymes (01:22)
10. Rhymes (For Children) (08:59)

REPARATIONS NOW! (excerpts) (Jon Jang, 1988)
11. Redress / Blues (05:29)
12. Reparations Now! (04:10)
13. Ikiru (06:50)

Total time (60:50)

ASIAN AMERICAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Anthony Brown - drumset w/petal tom and timbales, shime daiko [7]
Mark Izu - bass, sheng [mouth organ 7]
Jon Jang - piano
Qi Chao Liu - sheng [4,7], suona [reed trumpet 1,10], dizi [bamboo flute 6,8,9,10]
Hafez Modirzadeh - soprano and tenor [2,6] saxophone, ney [end-blown flute 4,8]
Wayne Wallace - trombone
Francis Wong - tenor saxophone [2,5], flute [1,6-10], clarinet [5]
John Worley - trumpet
SAN JOSE TAIKO
PJ Hirabayashi - taiko, percussion, waterphone [8]
Michelle Fujii   taiko, percussion, shekere [10]
Yumi Ishihara   taiko, percussion, cowbell [6], clave and palito [10]
Crissy Sato   taiko, percussion, triangle and cowbell [10]

Special Guests
Brenda Wong Aoki
Gorge Yoshida