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Toshiko Akiyoshi

Toshiko Akiyoshi has been played on NTS shows including If Music Presents You Need This w/ Jean-Claude, with The Village first played on 9 October 2014.

Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition.

Toshiko Akiyoshi was born in Manchuria, China, and was considering a career in medicine when her family returned to live in Japan. "Japan was still heavily occupied then, and our resort city of Beppu was flooded with soldiers. One day I happened to pass one of…

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We´ll Be Together Again
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Fresh Sound Records2023
We´ll Be Together Again
Toshiko AkiyoshiFresh Sound Records2023
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Memory
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Ninety-One1997
Memory
Toshiko AkiyoshiNinety-One1997
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The Village
Toshiko Akiyoshi
RCA1975
The Village
Toshiko AkiyoshiRCA1975
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Kisarazu Zinku
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Jazzman2018
Kisarazu Zinku
Toshiko AkiyoshiJazzman2018
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Kyo Shu (Nostalgia)
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Fresh Sound Records2023
Kyo Shu (Nostalgia)
Toshiko AkiyoshiFresh Sound Records2023
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Memory
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Inner City Records1980
Memory
Toshiko AkiyoshiInner City Records1980
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