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Toshiko Akiyoshi - Wikipedia 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
Toshiko Akiyoshi - National Womens History Museum 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, and composer-arranger, Akiyoshi cemented her place as one of the most important jazz musicians of the twentieth century
Who is Toshiko Akiyoshi? Meet the Japanese pianist and . . . Toshiko Akiyoshi, a Japanese-American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader, has 14 Grammy nominations to her name She was the first Japanese musician to study at Berklee College of Music, and she was even the subject of a 1984 documentary, Jazz Is My Native Language
LEGEND After 75 Years, Jazz Pianist Akiyoshi Still Plays On 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 jazz star was remarkable Performing with her daughter,
Toshiko Akiyoshi: the inventor of modern Japanese jazz Despite her monumental contributions to the Japanese jazz scene, Akiyoshi had moved to the United States to pursue her musical aspirations, a bold decision for a young Japanese woman at the time She was officially discovered in 1953 while playing in a club in Tokyo
Being True to Herself - National Endowment for the Arts In the hard-driving, male-dominated jazz field at the time, a petite Japanese woman who wrote and arranged her own music was unusual to say the least But Akiyoshi was a pioneer in bringing an Asian sensibility to the music and follows in Mary Lou Williams’ footsteps as a major female jazz composer and arranger Akiyoshi had come a long way
Akiyoshi, Toshiko - Encyclopedia. com Born on December 18, 1929, in Dairen, Manchuria, China, to well-off Japanese parents, Akiyoshi, the youngest of four daughters, was introduced to music early in life Her father encouraged his children to study the arts, enrolling them in lessons in ballet, traditional Japanese dancing, and piano