Toshiko Akiyoshi

Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master

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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Works

After Mr. Teng
Autumn Sea
Blue Dream
Caribbean Dream
Celebration of Duke's Birth
Chasing After Love
Children of the Universe
China Remembered (My Teacher, Mr. Yan)
Dance of the Gremlins
Drum Conference: II. Endless Journey
Drum Conference: III.
Duke for the Ages
Elusive Dream
Eulogy
Fading Beauty
Farewell (To Mingus)
Feast in Milano
Glass Ceiling
Hangin' Loose
Happy Hoofer
Harvest Shuffle
Henpecked Old Man
Hiroko's Delight
Hope
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
I Ain't Gonna Ask No More
I Know Who Loves You
Interlude
Jamming at Carnegie Hall
Jazz Club (Opener)
Kourakan Suite: Kourakan / Prayer
Kyoto Paradox
Lady Liverty
Lazy Day
Long Yellow Road
Memory
Monopoly Game
Norito
Notorious Tourist From the East
Old Pals
Pea, Bee and Lee
Pollination
Relaxing at Zell Am See
Remembering Bud
Repose
Retro Zone
Road Time Shuffle
Salted Gingko Nuts
Salute to Shorty
Shades of Yellow
Since Perry
Soliloquy
Son of Road Time
Song for the Harvest
State of the Unison
Strive for Jive
Tales Of A Courtesan (Oirantan)
Ten Gallon Shuffle
The Village
Time Stream
Tuning Up
Two Faces of a Nation - Part. I
Two Faces of a Nation - Part. II
Urban Rhapsody
Village
Warning: Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Watasu No Biethovin
すみ絵
広島節