Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi was the first Japanese musician to become popular with jazz fans in the U.S. Oscar Peterson demanded that his label record her; Charles Mingus hired her for his band. Then she ...
It goes without saying that "Hiroshima -- Rising From the Abyss," Toshiko Akiyoshi's World War II memorial scored for jazz orchestra, has its solemn and deeply moving moments. Some sections are marked ...
As a Japanese woman and bandleader, Toshiko Akiyoshi was obliged to be a pioneer of one kind or another. In her day, women in jazz were singers and little more, and they certainly were not Japanese.
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