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Toshiko Akiyoshi
穐吉敏子
Since 1929
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Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko; born 12 December 1929) is a Japanese 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. 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.
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Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉 敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko), japonaise née en Mandchourie puis émigrée américaine est une pianiste de jazz et chef d'orchestre. Née le 12 décembre 1929, elle étudie le piano classique.
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Discography
Albums
- 1954 Toshiko’s Piano
- 1956 Her Trio Her Quartet
- 1963 The Country & Western Sound of Jazz Pianos
- 1974 Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals
- 1978 Finesse
- 1980 Notorious Tourist From The East
- 1992 Interlude
- 1992 Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream
- 1993 Dig
- 1994 Desert Lady / Fantasy
- 1994 Night and Dream
- 1996 In Japan
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- 1997 With Brazilian Friends - "Yes, I Have No 4Beat Today"
- 1999 Toshiko Plays Toshiko
- 1999 Sketches of Japan
- 1999 The Many Sides of Toshiko
- 2006 Hope
- 2006 Toshiko Mariano Quartet
- 2007 Let Freedom Swing
- 2010 Toshiko & Modern Jazz
- 2010 Classic Encounters
- 2016 Jazz Conversations (The Other Side of Monday Michiru)
- 2016 Porgy and Bess
- 2021 Early Numbers
- 2023 Toshiko’s Blues · Quartet & Trios 1953–1958
- farewell
