Toshiko Akiyoshi
American jazz pianist and composer
Toshiko Akiyoshi is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's annual Readers' Poll. Wikipedia
Born: 1929 (age 94 years), Liaoyang, China
Music group: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band
Spouse: Lew Tabackin (m. 1969) and Charlie Mariano (m. 1959–1967)
Children: Monday Michiru
Grandchild: Nikita Sipiagin
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Over the course of a six-decade career, 2007 NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi has made a unique and vital contribution to the art of big band jazz.
Apr 6, 2023 · Virtuoso pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi was born in 1929, in Manchuria, a region of northeast China that was, at the time, controlled by Japan.
As one of few women and Asian musicians in the jazz world, Akiyoshi infused Japanese culture, sounds, and instruments into her music. As a pianist, bandleader, ...
The Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band was a 16 piece jazz big band created by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and tenor saxophone/flutist Lew Tabackin in ...
Japanese-American jazz pianist, composer/arranger, and band leader. Born December 12, 1929 in Liaoyang, Manchuria (now part of China).
A few months into my job a Japanese man came up to me and said, "I've been watching you play the piano, and I think you have the talent to become a jazz player.
Apr 24, 2023 · As Toshiko Akiyoshi, 93, walked toward the stage, her footsteps were a little tentative. But once she sat at the piano, the change in the ...
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Toshiko Akiyoshi, the first major Japanese jazz musician, was actually born in China, moving with her family to Japan when she was 15 shortly after World War II ...
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