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Toshiko Akiyoshi

January 01, 1970

Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko, born 12 December 1929)[1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.[2]

Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1978
Background information
Birth nameToshiko Akiyoshi (穐吉 敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko)
Also known as"Toshiko", Toshiko Mariano, 秋吉 敏子
Born (1929-12-12) 12 December 1929 (age 94)
Liaoyang, Manchuria, China
OriginBeppu
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • composer
  • arranger
Instrument(s)Piano
Years active1946–present
LabelsNorgran, Columbia, Victor, RCA Victor, Discomate, Inner City, Nippon Crown
EducationBerklee College of Music

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. In 1984, she was the subject of the documentary Jazz Is My Native Language. In 1996, she published her autobiography, Life with Jazz, and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.[3][4]

Biography edit

Akiyoshi was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria, to Japanese colonists, the youngest of four sisters. In 1945, after World War II, Akiyoshi's family lost their home and returned to Japan, settling in Beppu. A local record collector introduced her to jazz by playing a record of Teddy Wilson playing "Sweet Lorraine." She immediately loved the sound and began to study jazz. In 1953, during a tour of Japan, pianist Oscar Peterson discovered her playing in a club on the Ginza. Peterson was impressed and convinced record producer Norman Granz to record her.[4] In 1953, under Granz's direction, she recorded her first album with Peterson's rhythm section: Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on double bass, and J. C. Heard on drums. The album was released with the title Toshiko's Piano in the U.S. and Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan.[5]

Akiyoshi studied jazz at the Berklee School of Music in Boston.[4] In 1955, she wrote a letter to Lawrence Berk, asking him to give her a chance to study at his school. After a year of wrangling with the State Department and Japanese officials, Berk was given permission for Akiyoshi to enroll. He offered her a full scholarship, and he mailed her a plane ticket to Boston. In January 1956, she became the first Japanese student at Berklee.[6] Soon after, she appeared as a contestant on the 18 March 1956 broadcast of the CBS television panel show What's My Line?[7] In 1998, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee, by then known as the Berklee College of Music.[8]

Akiyoshi did experience some difficulties as a result of her Japanese heritage after coming to America. Some of her audience saw her as an oddity more than a talented musician, a Japanese girl playing jazz in America. According to Akiyoshi, some of her success was attributed to her being an oddity, saying in an interview with the LA Times, “In those days, a Japanese woman playing like Bud Powell was something very new. So all the press, the attention, wasn’t because I was authentic...It was because I was strange”.[9]

Akiyoshi married saxophonist Charlie Mariano in 1959. The couple had a daughter, Michiru. She and Mariano divorced in 1967 after forming several bands together. During the same year, she met saxophonist Lew Tabackin, whom she married in 1969. Akiyoshi, Tabackin, and Michiru moved to Los Angeles in 1972. In March 1973, Akiyoshi and Tabackin formed a 16-piece big band composed of studio musicians.[4] Akiyoshi composed and arranged music for the band, and Tabackin served as the band's featured soloist on tenor saxophone and flute. The band recorded its first album, Kogun, in 1974. The title, which translates to "one-man army", was inspired by the tale of a Japanese soldier lost for 30 years in the jungle who believed that World War II was still being fought and thus remained loyal to the Emperor.[10] Kogun was commercially successful in Japan, and the band began to receive critical acclaim.[4]

The couple moved to New York City in 1982 and assembled the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin.[4] Akiyoshi toured with smaller bands to raise money for her big band. Years later, BMG continued to release her big band's recordings in Japan but remained skeptical about releasing the music in the United States[11] Although Akiyoshi was able to release several albums in the U.S. featuring her piano in solo and small combo settings, many of her later big band albums were released only in Japan.

On Monday, 29 December 2003, her band played its final concert at Birdland in New York City, where it had enjoyed a regular Monday night gig for more than seven years.[11] Akiyoshi explained that she disbanded the ensemble because she was frustrated by her inability to obtain American recording contracts for the big band. She also said that she wanted to concentrate on her piano playing from which she had been distracted by years of composing and arranging. She has said that although she has rarely recorded as a solo pianist, that is her preferred format. On 24 March 2004, Warner Japan released the final recording of Akiyoshi's big band. Titled Last Live in Blue Note Tokyo, the album was recorded 28–29 November 2003.

Music edit

 
Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band

Akiyoshi’s Japanese heritage is distinctly present in her music and sets her compositions apart from other jazz musicians. When Duke Ellington died in 1974, Nat Hentoff wrote in The Village Voice that Ellington's music reflected his African heritage. Akiyoshi was inspired to investigate her Japanese musical heritage.[12][verification needed] She composed using Japanese themes, harmonies, and instruments (kotsuzumi, kakko, utai, tsugaru shamisen). But her music remained planted firmly in jazz, reflecting influences from Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Bud Powell.

One reviewer of the live album Road Time said the music on Akiyoshi's big band albums demonstrated "a level of compositional and orchestral ingenuity that made her one of perhaps two or three composer-arrangers in jazz whose name could seriously be mentioned in the company of Duke Ellington, Eddie Sauter, and Gil Evans."[13]

In 1999, Akiyoshi was approached by Kyudo Nakagawa, a Buddhist priest, who asked her to write a piece for his hometown of Hiroshima. He sent her some photos of the aftermath of the nuclear bombing. Her initial reaction was horror. She could not see how she could compose anything to address the event. Finally, she found a picture of a young woman emerging from an underground shelter with a faint smile on her face. Akiyoshi said that after seeing this picture, she understood the message: hope. With that message in mind, she composed the three-part suite Hiroshima: Rising from the Abyss. The piece was premiered in Hiroshima on 6 August 2001, the 56th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. The Hiroshima suite appeared on the 2002 album Hiroshima – Rising from the Abyss.[14]

Awards and honors edit

Discography edit

Main article: Toshiko Akiyoshi discography

References edit

  1. ^ Robinson, J. Bradford; Kernfeld, Barry (2002). "Akiyoshi, Toshiko". In Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Vol. 1 (2 ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 22. ISBN 1561592846.
  2. ^ Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin Books. p. 5. ISBN 0-141-00646-3.
  3. ^ . www.jazz.com. 5 December 2008. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "NEA Jazz Masters – Toshiko Akiyoshi". [US] National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  5. ^ Dryden, Ken. "Toshiko's Piano". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra Brought The Club to Concert Halls". NPR.org. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Toshiko Akiyoshi on What's My Line". YouTube. 1956. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  8. ^ Mergner, Lee (26 August 2009). "Dave Brubeck to Receive Honorary Doctorate From Berklee During MJF". JazzTimes. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  9. ^ Stewart, Zan (14 November 1993). "A Non-Traditional Arrangement : After making headlines as a musical oddity in the '50s, then nearly giving it all up in the '60s, pianist and big-band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi has found her place with a distinctive blend of Eastern and Western idioms". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  10. ^ "'Kogun' and More Japanese Stragglers". simonhutchinson.com. 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  11. ^ a b . jazz.com. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  12. ^ "Toshiko Akiyoshi :: Jazz Archive Interviews". contentdm6.hamilton.edu. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  13. ^ Harrison, Max; Fox, Charles; Thacker, Eric; Nicholson, Stuart (2000). The Essential Jazz Records Volume 2: Modernism to Postsmodernism. Continuum. p. 226. ISBN 978-0720118223.
  14. ^ Nat Hentoff (21 August 2003). "A Japanese Jazz Musician Tackles The Daunting Subject of Hiroshima". WSJ.com. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  15. ^ Down Beat magazine's Readers' Poll winners database; accessed 5 April 2012
  16. ^ Down Beat magazine's Critics' Poll winners database; accessed 5 April 2012.
  17. ^ LA Times, Grammy Nominees Database; accessed 3 June 2007
  18. ^ "Toshiko Akiyoshi". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  19. ^ Reich, Howard (13 November 1994). "Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: Desert Lady-Fantasy (Columbia).One..." chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  20. ^ "Toshiko Akiyoshi". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  21. ^ "Toshiko Akiyoshi Catalog - album index". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 13 November 2018.

Notes edit

  • "100 Jazz Profiles: Toshiko Akiyoshi" (link) BBC Radio 3; accessed 18 May 2007
  • "Jazz Import" () Time, 26 August 1957
  • "Toshiko's Boston Breakout" (archived link) Berklee College of Music, News@Berklee.edu, c. 1998; accessed 26 May 2007
  • Hazell, Ed. "Playing Shape" (archived link) Berklee College of Music, News@Berklee.edu, 2 June 2004; accessed 26 May 2007
  • Helland, Dave. "Bio: Toshiko Akiyoshi" (archived link) Down Beat.com; accessed 18 May 2007
  • Jung, Fred. "A Fireside Chat With Toshiko Akiyoshi" (link) All About Jazz, 20 April 2003; accessed 18 May 2007
  • Weiers, Matt. "An Interview with Toshiko Akiyoshi" (link) Allegro, 2004 March (Volume CIV, No. 3).
  • Yanow, Scott. "Biography: Toshiko Akiyoshi" (link), allmusic.com; accessed 18 May 2007.
  • Ogawa, Takao. "Jazz in Japan through Testimonials · 証言で綴る日本のジャズ" (Komakusa Publishing) 2015, Language: Japanese ISBN 978-4-905447-71-9, p. 90-110.

External links edit

  • 2007 NEA Jazz Master Profile
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi discography at Discogs  

January 01, 1970
toshiko, akiyoshi, 秋吉敏子, 穐吉敏子, akiyoshi, toshiko, born, december, 1929, american, jazz, pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, 1978background, informationbirth, name, 穐吉, 敏子, akiyoshi, toshiko, also, known, toshiko, toshiko, mariano, 秋吉, 敏子born, 1929, decemb. Toshiko Akiyoshi 秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子 Akiyoshi Toshiko born 12 December 1929 1 is an American jazz pianist composer arranger and bandleader 2 Toshiko AkiyoshiToshiko Akiyoshi in 1978Background informationBirth nameToshiko Akiyoshi 穐吉 敏子 Akiyoshi Toshiko Also known as Toshiko Toshiko Mariano 秋吉 敏子Born 1929 12 12 12 December 1929 age 94 Liaoyang Manchuria ChinaOriginBeppuGenresJazzOccupation s Musician composer arrangerInstrument s PianoYears active1946 presentLabelsNorgran Columbia Victor RCA Victor Discomate Inner City Nippon CrownEducationBerklee College of Music 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 In 1984 she was the subject of the documentary Jazz Is My Native Language In 1996 she published her autobiography Life with Jazz and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U S National Endowment for the Arts 3 4 Contents 1 Biography 2 Music 3 Awards and honors 4 Discography 5 References 6 Notes 7 External linksBiography editAkiyoshi was born in Liaoyang Manchuria to Japanese colonists the youngest of four sisters In 1945 after World War II Akiyoshi s family lost their home and returned to Japan settling in Beppu A local record collector introduced her to jazz by playing a record of Teddy Wilson playing Sweet Lorraine She immediately loved the sound and began to study jazz In 1953 during a tour of Japan pianist Oscar Peterson discovered her playing in a club on the Ginza Peterson was impressed and convinced record producer Norman Granz to record her 4 In 1953 under Granz s direction she recorded her first album with Peterson s rhythm section Herb Ellis on guitar Ray Brown on double bass and J C Heard on drums The album was released with the title Toshiko s Piano in the U S and Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan 5 Akiyoshi studied jazz at the Berklee School of Music in Boston 4 In 1955 she wrote a letter to Lawrence Berk asking him to give her a chance to study at his school After a year of wrangling with the State Department and Japanese officials Berk was given permission for Akiyoshi to enroll He offered her a full scholarship and he mailed her a plane ticket to Boston In January 1956 she became the first Japanese student at Berklee 6 Soon after she appeared as a contestant on the 18 March 1956 broadcast of the CBS television panel show What s My Line 7 In 1998 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee by then known as the Berklee College of Music 8 Akiyoshi did experience some difficulties as a result of her Japanese heritage after coming to America Some of her audience saw her as an oddity more than a talented musician a Japanese girl playing jazz in America According to Akiyoshi some of her success was attributed to her being an oddity saying in an interview with the LA Times In those days a Japanese woman playing like Bud Powell was something very new So all the press the attention wasn t because I was authentic It was because I was strange 9 Akiyoshi married saxophonist Charlie Mariano in 1959 The couple had a daughter Michiru She and Mariano divorced in 1967 after forming several bands together During the same year she met saxophonist Lew Tabackin whom she married in 1969 Akiyoshi Tabackin and Michiru moved to Los Angeles in 1972 In March 1973 Akiyoshi and Tabackin formed a 16 piece big band composed of studio musicians 4 Akiyoshi composed and arranged music for the band and Tabackin served as the band s featured soloist on tenor saxophone and flute The band recorded its first album Kogun in 1974 The title which translates to one man army was inspired by the tale of a Japanese soldier lost for 30 years in the jungle who believed that World War II was still being fought and thus remained loyal to the Emperor 10 Kogun was commercially successful in Japan and the band began to receive critical acclaim 4 The couple moved to New York City in 1982 and assembled the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin 4 Akiyoshi toured with smaller bands to raise money for her big band Years later BMG continued to release her big band s recordings in Japan but remained skeptical about releasing the music in the United States 11 Although Akiyoshi was able to release several albums in the U S featuring her piano in solo and small combo settings many of her later big band albums were released only in Japan On Monday 29 December 2003 her band played its final concert at Birdland in New York City where it had enjoyed a regular Monday night gig for more than seven years 11 Akiyoshi explained that she disbanded the ensemble because she was frustrated by her inability to obtain American recording contracts for the big band She also said that she wanted to concentrate on her piano playing from which she had been distracted by years of composing and arranging She has said that although she has rarely recorded as a solo pianist that is her preferred format On 24 March 2004 Warner Japan released the final recording of Akiyoshi s big band Titled Last Live in Blue Note Tokyo the album was recorded 28 29 November 2003 Music edit nbsp Toshiko Akiyoshi Lew Tabackin Big Band Akiyoshi s Japanese heritage is distinctly present in her music and sets her compositions apart from other jazz musicians When Duke Ellington died in 1974 Nat Hentoff wrote in The Village Voice that Ellington s music reflected his African heritage Akiyoshi was inspired to investigate her Japanese musical heritage 12 verification needed She composed using Japanese themes harmonies and instruments kotsuzumi kakko utai tsugaru shamisen But her music remained planted firmly in jazz reflecting influences from Duke Ellington Charles Mingus and Bud Powell One reviewer of the live album Road Time said the music on Akiyoshi s big band albums demonstrated a level of compositional and orchestral ingenuity that made her one of perhaps two or three composer arrangers in jazz whose name could seriously be mentioned in the company of Duke Ellington Eddie Sauter and Gil Evans 13 In 1999 Akiyoshi was approached by Kyudo Nakagawa a Buddhist priest who asked her to write a piece for his hometown of Hiroshima He sent her some photos of the aftermath of the nuclear bombing Her initial reaction was horror She could not see how she could compose anything to address the event Finally she found a picture of a young woman emerging from an underground shelter with a faint smile on her face Akiyoshi said that after seeing this picture she understood the message hope With that message in mind she composed the three part suite Hiroshima Rising from the Abyss The piece was premiered in Hiroshima on 6 August 2001 the 56th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing The Hiroshima suite appeared on the 2002 album Hiroshima Rising from the Abyss 14 Awards and honors editNEA Jazz Master 2007 4 Jazz Album of the Year Long Yellow Road Stereo Review 1976 Gold Disk Insights Swing Journal Silver Disk Kogun Salted Gingko Nuts Four Seasons of Morita Village Swing Journal Special Award 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan Swing Journal Down Beat magazine Readers Poll winner 15 Arranger 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1989 1995 Big Band 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 Composer 1980 1981 1982 1986 Down Beat magazine Critics Poll winner 16 Jazz Album of the Year 1978 Insights Arranger 1979 1982 1990 1995 1996 Big Band 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Composer 1981 1982 Grammy Award nominations 17 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 Best Arrangement on an Instrumental 1981 for A Bit Byas d 1983 for Remembering Bud 1985 for March of the Tadpoles 1994 for Bebop nbsp Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Rosette 2004 18 Discography editMain article Toshiko Akiyoshi discography 1954 Toshiko s Piano Norgran 1955 The Toshiko Trio Storyville 1956 Toshiko Her Trio Her Quartet Storyville 1957 Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport Verve 1957 The Many Sides of Toshiko Verve 1958 United Notions MetroJazz 1961 The Toshiko Mariano Quartet Candid 1961 Long Yellow Road Asahi Sonorama 1961 Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals King 1963 Toshiko Mariano Quartet in West Side Takt Nippon Columbia 1963 East and West RCA Victor 1963 The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos with Steve Kuhn Dauntless 1963 Miwaku No Jazz Victor 1964 Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band Vee Jay Records 1965 Lullabies for You Nippon Columbia 1969 Toshiko at Top of the Gate Nippon Columbia 1970 Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan Liberty 1971 Jazz the Personal Dimension Victor 1971 Meditation Dan Records 1971 Sumie Victor 1971 Solo Piano RCA Victor 1974 Kogun RCA 1975 Long Yellow Road RCA 1976 Tales of a Courtesan Oirantan RCA 1976 Road Time RCA 1976 Insights RCA 1976 Dedications Discomate 1977 Dedications II Discomate 1977 March of the Tadpoles RCA 1977 Live at Newport 77 RCA 1977 Live at Newport II RCA 1978 Salted Gingko Nuts Ascent 1978 Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn Discomate 1978 Finesse Concord Jazz 1979 Notorious Tourist from the East Inner City 1979 Sumi e Insights 1980 Farewell RCA 1981 From Toshiko with Love Baystate 1982 European Memoirs Baystate 1983 Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Eastworld 1984 Ten Gallon Shuffle Baystate 1984 Time Stream Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio album Eastworld 1986 Wishing Peace Ascent 1987 Interlude Concord Jazz 1990 Four Seasons Nippon Crown Ninety One 1991 Chic Lady Ninety One 1991 Live at Birdland Fresh Sound 1992 Carnegie Hall Concert Columbia Records 1992 Remembering Bud Cleopatra s Dream Evidence 1994 Desert Lady Fantasy Columbia 19 1993 Dig Ninety One 1994 Night and Dream Ninety One 1995 Yes I Have No 4 Beat Today Ninety One 1994 Toshiko Akiyoshi at Maybeck Concord Jazz 1996 Four Seasons of Morita Village Novus 1996 Time Stream Toshiko Plays Toshiko Ninety One 1997 Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Live at Blue Note Tokyo 97 Ninety One 1998 Monopoly Game Novus 1999 Sketches of Japan Ninety One 1999 Tribute to Duke Ellington Novus 2000 Toshiko Akiyoshi Solo Live at the Kennedy Center Crown 2001 Hiroshima Rising from the Abyss Video Arts 2004 Last Live in Blue Note Tokyo Warner Music 2004 New York Sketch Book Ninety One 2006 Hope Ninety One 2006 50th Anniversary Concert in Japan T toc Records 2008 Let Freedom Swing with the SWR Big Band Hanssler 2008 Vintage Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin album T toc Records 2009 Solo Live 2004 Live at Studio F Studio Songs 2010 Classic Encounters Studio Songs 2011 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra in Shanghai Pony Canyon 2015 Jazz Conversations Victor Entertainment 2016 Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin s Porgy And Bess Studio Songs 2017 My Long Yellow Road Studio Songs 20 21 2019 The Eternal Duo Sony References edit Robinson J Bradford Kernfeld Barry 2002 Akiyoshi Toshiko In Barry Kernfeld ed The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz Vol 1 2 ed New York Grove s Dictionaries p 22 ISBN 1561592846 Cook Richard 2005 Richard Cook s Jazz Encyclopedia London Penguin Books p 5 ISBN 0 141 00646 3 In Conversation with Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin www jazz com 5 December 2008 Archived from the original on 1 February 2016 Retrieved 13 January 2015 a b c d e f g NEA Jazz Masters Toshiko Akiyoshi US National Endowment for the Arts NEA 2015 Retrieved 27 January 2015 Dryden Ken Toshiko s Piano AllMusic Retrieved 6 May 2018 Toshiko Akiyoshi s Jazz Orchestra Brought The Club to Concert Halls NPR org Retrieved 1 April 2021 Toshiko Akiyoshi on What s My Line YouTube 1956 Retrieved 2 September 2016 Mergner Lee 26 August 2009 Dave Brubeck to Receive Honorary Doctorate From Berklee During MJF JazzTimes Retrieved 6 May 2018 Stewart Zan 14 November 1993 A Non Traditional Arrangement After making headlines as a musical oddity in the 50s then nearly giving it all up in the 60s pianist and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi has found her place with a distinctive blend of Eastern and Western idioms Los Angeles Times Retrieved 20 April 2023 Kogun and More Japanese Stragglers simonhutchinson com 2015 Retrieved 27 January 2015 a b Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians Toshiko Akiyoshi jazz com 2015 Archived from the original on 15 January 2015 Retrieved 27 January 2015 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Archive Interviews contentdm6 hamilton edu Retrieved 31 August 2020 Harrison Max Fox Charles Thacker Eric Nicholson Stuart 2000 The Essential Jazz Records Volume 2 Modernism to Postsmodernism Continuum p 226 ISBN 978 0720118223 Nat Hentoff 21 August 2003 A Japanese Jazz Musician Tackles The Daunting Subject of Hiroshima WSJ com Retrieved 30 August 2013 Down Beat magazine s Readers Poll winners database accessed 5 April 2012 Down Beat magazine s Critics Poll winners database accessed 5 April 2012 LA Times Grammy Nominees Database accessed 3 June 2007 Toshiko Akiyoshi National Endowment for the Arts Retrieved 5 December 2021 Reich Howard 13 November 1994 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra Desert Lady Fantasy Columbia One chicagotribune com Retrieved 13 November 2018 Toshiko Akiyoshi AllMusic Retrieved 13 November 2018 Toshiko Akiyoshi Catalog album index www jazzdisco org Retrieved 13 November 2018 Notes edit 100 Jazz Profiles Toshiko Akiyoshi link BBC Radio 3 accessed 18 May 2007 Jazz Import link Time 26 August 1957 Toshiko s Boston Breakout archived link Berklee College of Music News Berklee edu c 1998 accessed 26 May 2007 Hazell Ed Playing Shape archived link Berklee College of Music News Berklee edu 2 June 2004 accessed 26 May 2007 Helland Dave Bio Toshiko Akiyoshi archived link Down Beat com accessed 18 May 2007 Jung Fred A Fireside Chat With Toshiko Akiyoshi link All About Jazz 20 April 2003 accessed 18 May 2007 Weiers Matt An Interview with Toshiko Akiyoshi link Allegro 2004 March Volume CIV No 3 Yanow Scott Biography Toshiko Akiyoshi link allmusic com accessed 18 May 2007 Ogawa Takao Jazz in Japan through Testimonials 証言で綴る日本のジャズ Komakusa Publishing 2015 Language Japanese ISBN 978 4 905447 71 9 p 90 110 External links edit2007 NEA Jazz Master Profile Toshiko Akiyoshi discography at Discogs nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Toshiko Akiyoshi amp oldid 1217336374, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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