Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko, born 12 December 1929) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received...
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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...
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American jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist. He is married to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi with whom he has co-led large ensembles since the 1970s. Tabackin started...
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Records in 1954, jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi has recorded continually – almost exclusively as a leader of small...
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documentary Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band (2008), Mosaic Records NOVUS Series '70: The Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band...
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pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi - not to be confused with her 1983 Toshiba East World album, Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio. All compositions by Toshiko Akiyoshi except...
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The Many Sides of Toshiko is a jazz piano trio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded in New York in 1957 and released on the Verve label. LP side A "The...
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Toshiko Akiyoshi tracks are also included on some later re-issues of the Norgran (Verve) recording Toshiko's Piano / Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi. LP side...
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of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a compilation album of songs taken from BMG Japan releases of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and the Toshiko Akiyoshi...
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Long Yellow Road is the second album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was named Best Jazz Album of the year by Stereo Review magazine...
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Toshiko – Her Trio, Her Quartet is a jazz album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in New York, in 1956, and released on the Storyville record label...
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sideman. He performed and recorded with Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Lou Donaldson, Curtis Fuller, Benny Sharoni, Eric Alexander...
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I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978 – 2000 Farewell – 1980 From Toshiko With Love also released as Tanuki's Night Out – 1981 European Memoirs –...
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Toshiko's Piano (released as Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan) is the debut recording of jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded in Japan in 1953...
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Toshiko at Top of the Gate is a live jazz (quintet) album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded at the Top of the Gate in New York City in July...
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Toshiko–Mariano Quartet (in West Side) is a jazz album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano and was recorded in Tokyo in 1963...
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Kogun (category Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band albums)
(Japanese: 孤軍) is the first album recorded by the Los Angeles-based Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. It was released in Japan by Victor in 1974...
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recorded by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio in 1990 and released on the Nippon Crown record label. It is not to be confused with the 1996 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra...
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The jazz album The Toshiko–Mariano Quartet featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi (then Toshiko Mariano) on piano and Charlie Mariano on alto saxophone was recorded...
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The jazz album Toshiko Meets Her Old Pals (Japanese Title: 敏子 / 旧友に会う) was recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo in March 1961 and released by...
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1961 – Toshiko Akiyoshi is a compilation (effectively a combined re-issue of 2 albums) of previous Toshiko Akiyoshi recordings from 1961. All 5 tracks...
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Insights (album) (redirect from Insights (Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band))
Insights is the fourth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band and was voted "Jazz Album of the Year" in the 1978 Down Beat magazine...
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Akiyosi Recital [sic] is a jazz trio recording made by the jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo in February of 1961. A total of five tracks were recorded...
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The World of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese boxed set compilation album of previously released tracks from Toshiko Akiyoshi recordings on the BMG (~1963...
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Evans, John Lewis, Marian McPartland and Patrice Rushen, The Meters, Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band 1976 Dizzy Gillespie, John Faddis, Clark Terry...
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troops were eager to hear the music they listened to back home. Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929) arrived in Tokyo in 1948, determined to become a professional...
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Toshiko Akiyoshi in Japan (also released as Long Yellow Road, Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet) is an album by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded at the Osaka...
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Farewell is the eighth studio recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. The album received a 1980 Grammy award nomination for...
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golfer Taisuke Akiyoshi (秋吉 泰佑, born 1989), Japanese footballer Toshiko Akiyoshi (穐吉 敏子, born 1929), Japanese American musician Yūki Akiyoshi (秋吉 夕紀, born...
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Monopoly Game (redirect from Monopoly Game (Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra))
Monopoly Game is the sixth recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin. The three tracks, "Kyoto Paradox", Caribbean...
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