Also known as Toshiko Akiyoshi Mariano, Toshiko Mariano, Toshiko Tabackin
Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master
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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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Toshiko+
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