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	Toshiko Akiyoshi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Toshiko Akiyoshi (穐吉敏子, born December 12, 1929) is a jazz pianist and a composer/arranger.
		Toshiko was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria to Japanese emigrants.
		Toshiko explained that she disbanded the ensemble because she was frustrated by her inability to obtain domestic recording contracts for the big band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toshiko_Akiyoshi (1132 words)

	The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Toshiko Akiyoshi was born in Manchuria, China, and was considering a career in medicine when her family returned to live in Japan.
		Toshiko's family wasn't thrilled with the idea, but they finally agreed that she could play until the school year began.
		In 1973, with the help of Lew Tabackin (to whom she was now married), Toshiko started up what she then thought of as a "reheasal band," the which ultimately became the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra.
	www.usc.edu /dept/spectrum/94-95season/toshiko.html (453 words)

	Chicago Public Radio
		Akiyoshi is something of a rarity in jazz, an Asian woman who has excelled for over fifty years in a field largely populated by American men.
		Akiyoshi moved to Japan in the late forties, and within a few years was performing regularly, mostly as the leader of a trio, in Tokyo clubs.
		Akiyoshi returned to the United States in 1965 and began to more seriously develop her musical ideas and infuse elements of traditional Japanese music into her compositions.
	www.wbez.org /programs/specials/jazzfest2004/jf2004_masterclass.asp (518 words)

	The Berkeley Agency/Toshiko Akiyoshi
		Toshiko Akiyoshi's unique contributions to the jazz world have evolved like falling dominoes through a series of events that started with a piano-loving little Japanese girl in Manchuria and brought her to prominence as an unparalleled pianist, composer and leader of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra.
		The band, which began as a vehicle for Toshiko's own compositions, grew in stature during its 10 years on the west coast and gained a reputation as one of the most excellent and innovative big bands in jazz.
		To this Akiyoshi adds her own complex, boppish lines and contemporary colors and textures, mingled with elements of her Asian roots to produce a sound that has no equal in jazz.
	www.berkeleyagency.com /html/toshikobio.html (723 words)

	AsianWeek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Akiyoshi and her 17-piece jazz orchestra--featuring husband and fellow musician Lew Tabackin, a master of both the flute and saxophone--collaborated with Bay Area koto virtuoso Miya Masaoka in an exciting premiere of her Jazz Suite for Koto and Orchestra at the San Francisco Jazz Festival last Saturday.
		Akiyoshi's Jazz Suite was particularly inspiring in the peaceful, meditative qualities evoked by the koto in the first movement; the joyful flavor of the Caribbean in the second; and the frenetic noise of big cities suggested by the horns in the third movement.
		Akiyoshi's family, expecting her to pursue a medical career, was not thrilled with the idea and agreed to let her play only until the school year began.
	www.asianweek.com /103097/arts.html (872 words)

	Pianist brings lifetime of jazz to Nightingale (printable version)
		Akiyoshi is Japanese, but she grew up with her parents in Manchuria in northeastern China.
		Akiyoshi is best known for working with her orchestra, and she has recorded 18 albums with the group.
		Akiyoshi said she is feeling the effects of age, but that hasn’t stopped her creative development.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=65773 (480 words)

	Jazz at Lincoln Center - Guest Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Toshiko Akiyoshi was born and raised in Manchuria and started piano lessons at age six.
		Akiyoshi, influenced originally by Gil Evans and Thad Jones, has been particularly notable for incorporating elements of traditional Japanese music into her compositions.
		Akiyoshi's big band featuring Tabackin has been a driving force in the jazz world, touring and recording to great critical acclaim.
	www.jazzatlincolncenter.org /jazz/arti/gues/event_guest.asp?EventID=191 (1013 words)

	Lew Tabackin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lew Tabackin (born March 26, 1940) is a jazz flutist and a tenor saxophonist.
		He was the principal soloist of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin.
		His wife is Toshiko Akiyoshi, who is a jazz pianist　and a composer/arranger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lew_Tabackin (76 words)

	CSUB News center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Toshiko Akiyoshi, the 14-time Grammy nominee and winner of “Best Composer/Arranger” in Down Beat Magazine’s jazz polls, will be the featured artist in California State University, Bakersfield’s next Legends of Jazz concert on Friday, March 4, at 8 p.m.
		The band, which began as a vehicle for Akiyoshi's own compositions, grew in stature during its 10 years on the West Coast, and gained a reputation as one of the most excellent and innovative big bands in jazz.
		The band was also voted No. 1 in Down Beat magazine's Best Big Band category, and Akiyoshi has placed first in the Best Arranger and Composer category in the Down Beat Readers' Poll, making her the first woman in the history of jazz to have been so honored.
	www.csubak.edu /CSUBNews/2005winter/jazz.html (546 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Interviews
		Toshiko Akiyoshi has been doing just that for the past thirty years with her big band.
		Akiyoshi’s latest project should be celebrated because it does justice to hope, something this world seems desperately without.
		TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI: Well, I started playing piano when I was seven years old and I fell in love with the instrument.
	www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/takiyoshi.htm (2200 words)

	Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra Featuring Lew Tabackin at Birdland
		Akiyoshi, who is a tiny musician, originally from Manchuria and then Japan, blends into her own Orchestra from her piano or conducts from upfront, with her tiny fingers and hands.
		Akiyoshi conducted in a minimal fashion, as she allows her musicians to realize their needs to improvise a bit, as probably no two performances of any one piece are exactly the same.
		Akiyoshi is an amazing sight, standing in front of this large Orchestra, so tiny, with uplifted hands, as she kept her musicians totally focused and blended.
	www.exploredance.com /musicreview2303.html (851 words)

	:: SFJAZZ :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She sat in at the piano and helped to re-write some of the chord notations for the pianist; listened attentively and picked out a single note that was played incorrectly; answered questions with humility; graciously received suggestions from students; and used humorous examples to create a comfortable learning environment.
		Akiyoshi often stressed the importance of developing good musical habits at a young age, she equally acknowledged the "good facility" of the young musicians and how "remarkable" an accomplishment it is to play such challenging tunes.
		Akiyoshi stressed mostly subtle fundamentals and spoke of the "difference between a good band and a superior one" as "small." If the strides they made in one two-hour session are any indication, their future as musicians may be boundless.
	www.sfjazz.org /education/masters_pastevents.html (797 words)

	Toshiko Akiyoshi - Kogun: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		As a writer known for her incorporation of traditional Japanese music into idiomatic big band writing, it is only on the title track of this 1974 recording that this propensity is exhibited.
		The rest of the album is dedicated to more traditional big band approaches, but, in the hands of Toshiko Akiyoshi [+], "traditional" techniques always manage to sound fresh.
		Although Akiyoshi's contributions are impossible to downplay, the reason for this record's sublimity must also rest in the orchestra itself, co-led by tenor (and hubby) Lew Tabackin [+].
	www.music.com /release/kogun/1 (298 words)

	BERKLEE \| Berklee News \| Playing Shape: Toshiko Akiyoshi
		When Toshiko Akiyoshi '57 was a young pianist in 1946, working in jazz and after-hours clubs in Tokyo during the Allied Occupation, she discovered Bud Powell.
		That's why after three decades at the helm of the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabakin Big Band, with which she recorded two dozen albums and and received 14 Grammy nominations, she decided to give it up and return to her first love: the piano.
		Akiyoshi's last extended visit to Berklee came in 1998, when she received an honorary doctor of music degree.
	www.berklee.edu /news/2004/06/akiyoshi.html (793 words)

	Jazz88 FM - The Worlds Premiere Jazz Radio Station, NYC and NJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Akiyoshi, known for incorporating elements of Japanese music into her bop tunes, has performed with her Jazz Orchestra for the past 30 years.
		Akiyoshi is one of the top composer-arrangers and ensemble leaders in the jazz world.
		Akiyoshi and Tabackin returned to New York in 1982 and reformed the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra using New York musicians.
	www.wbgo.org /ontheair/TAkiyoshi.ASP (319 words)

	Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Akiyoshi's orchestra, which includes her husband Lew Tabackin as featured soloist on tenor saxophone and flute, will debut a newly commissioned suite that is part of J@LC's Year of the Drum celebration.
		Akiyoshi's portion of the program will also include two of her more familiar orchestrations, “Desert Lady-Fantasy,” inspired by images of both Japan and North Africa, and “Feast in Milano,” based on a challenging 15/8 rhythmic pattern.
		The concert marks several notable milestones for the composers including Akiyoshi's 30th anniversary as an orchestra leader, the 20th anniversary of the band she and Tabackin organized in New York after relocating from Los Angeles, and the 10th anniversary of the Schneider orchestra's debut.
	www.jazzatlincolncenter.org /Jazz/note/030131.html (551 words)

	Jazz \| JazzTimes Magazine > Reviews > Concert Reviews
		Thirty years after forming her orchestra in Los Angeles—an organization that was reconstituted when Toshiko Akiyoshi and husband, Lew Tabackin, moved back to New York in 1982—came the disbanding of the 16-piece ensemble, a weekly Monday night fixture at Birdland since 1998.
		Toshiko moved to the piano for one of her rare solos, a very rhythmically active romp in a minor key.
		Toshiko’s daughter, Monday Michiru (toward the end of the concert she revealed a sweet singing voice in a ballad performance), read a relevant text over mournful instrumental tones and there was an explosive “free” section from various horns representing the horror of the bomb.
	www.jazztimes.com /reviews/concert_reviews/detail.cfm?article=10178 (1047 words)

	Toshiko Akiyoshi : International JAZZ PRODUCTIONS.com
		One day I happened to pass one of the many dance halls that were set up for the occupation soldiers, and I noticed a sign: 'Pianist wanted'." Toshiko, who had some training as a classical pianist went in, and the manager asked her to start right away.
		In 1973, with the help of Lew Tabackin (to whom she was now married), Toshiko started up what she then thought of as a "rehearsal band", which ultimately became the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra.
		This orchestra has since gone on to obtain nine Grammy nominations (Toshiko was also nominated three times as Arranger), and has earned top place numerous times in Down Beat and other major jazz polls in the U.S. and abroad.
	www.internationaljazzproductions.com /takiyoshi.html (465 words)

	Saxophonist Walt Weiskopf
		During his tenure with the Akiyoshi Band Walt began working with and writing for his own quartet and recorded the first of his nine CDs in 1989.
		Weiskopf's association with Toshiko Akiyoshi began shortly after he left the Rich band in 1983.
		Akiyoshi's small group before leaving the band in 1996.
	www.waltweiskopf.com /bio.html (894 words)

	Music, Art & Dance - 30 Years of Memorable Music
		Well, Toshiko Akiyoshi’s been there and now, after 30 years as a composer and conductor of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, she will be disbanding her group in order to devote herself to practice, practice, practice.
		Although Akiyoshi started to make a name for herself in the `50s, it was only in 1983, 10 years after forming a big band in L.A. with Tabackin, that her reputation really soared.
		What is most amazing about Toshiko Akiyoshi is her modesty about her craft and her devotion to her husband.
	www.educationupdate.com /archives/2003/oct03/issue/mad_30yrs.html (674 words)

	BERKLEE \| Press Release
		Manchurian-born Toshiko Akiyoshi's interest in the piano started at age six, and by the time her family had moved back to Japan at the end of World War II, Toshiko had developed a deep love for music.
		On Peterson's recommendation, Toshiko recorded for Granz, and not long after, she came to the U.S. to study at Berklee on a full scholarship, accorded her by Berklee founder Lawrence Berk.
		In 1996, Toshiko realized a long time dream when she completed her autobiography Life With Jazz, which is now in its third printing in Japanese and will soon be translated into Korean.
	www.berklee.edu /opi/2004/0219.html (1484 words)

	Local 802 News - Publications & Press Releases
		"Toshiko Akiyoshi is the first woman in jazz history ever to compose and arrange an entire library of music and organize her own orchestra to interpret it."
		Toshiko Akiyoshi, born in Manchuria, began her piano training at age six, and her career as a jazz pianist in 1946 in Japan.
		Akiyoshi came to the United States in 1956 and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival and toured various well-known jazz clubs with her own trio and quartet.
	www.local802afm.org /publication_entry.cfm?xEntry=28405650 (2150 words)

	UWSP news-Toshiko Akiyoshi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, featuring Lew Tabackin, will perform in the auditorium of the Stevens Point Area Senior High School on Friday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
		Pianist, composer and leader of the jazz orchestra, Akiyoshi was born in Manchuria, grew up in Japan and studied in the U.S. She and her husband, saxophonist and flutist Lew Tabackin, formed a big band.
		Akiyoshi adds complex, boppish lines, contemporary elements and hints of her Asian roots to produce a sound that has no equal in jazz.
	www.uwsp.edu /news/webpages/kyakiyoshi.htm (374 words)

	CMT.com : Toshiko Akiyoshi : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Married for a time to altoist Charlie Mariano, she co-led the Toshiko Mariano Quartet in the early '60s.
		After moving to Los Angeles in 1972, Toshiko Akiyoshi put together her very impressive big band which featured such fine soloists as Bobby Shew, Gary Foster, and Tabackin.
		Since their relocation, Akiyoshi and Tabackin have both been quite active although her re-formed big band has actually received less publicity than it did in L.A. She ranks as one of the top jazz arrangers of the past several decades.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/akiyoshi_toshiko/bio.jhtml (270 words)

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		Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese American composer of jazz music.
		Akiyoshi said her hands are like an instrument, she records what happens in her life through music.
		Although Akiyoshi lived during a time when jazz music was popular, won many awards, and was someone who was leader in that particular genre, yet we never hear of her presence in jazz.
	home.pacbell.net /bobtins/melinda/portfolio/so4.htm (849 words)

	News Events & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin to Perform with NJCU Jazz Ensemble and Studio Orchestra on April 25
		Akiyoshi leads the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, which features her husband, Mr.
		Akiyoshi's own compositions, rapidly gained a reputation as one of the most innovative big bands in jazz.
	www.njcu.edu /news/akiyoshi.asp (369 words)

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