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Meet Yoko Miwa
by Ludwig vanTrikt
All About Jazz: For your American audience, please introduce yourself. Yoko Miwa: My name is Yoko Miwa. I am a jazz pianist born in Kobe, Japan, now living in Boston. I started taking piano lessons at the age of 4. My family was always very supportive of my interest in music. ...
Hiroshima: Rising From The Abyss
Label: True Life Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Long Yellow Road 1:53
2. Hiroshima-Rising from the Abyss: Futility... 12:06
3. Hiroshima-Rising from the Abyss: Futility... 3:26
4. Hiroshima-Rising from the Abyss: Survivor... 6:40
5. Hiroshima-Rising from the Abyss: Survivor... 1:18
6. Hiroshima-Rising from the Abyss: Survivor... 13:14
7. Hiroshima-Rising from the Abyss: Hope 6:41
8. Wishing Peace 7:13
Toshiko Akiyoshi: Hiroshima: Rising From The Abyss
by AAJ Staff
Composer, bandleader and pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi has tucked yet another significant feather into her cap with Hiroshima. Her new CD was recorded live at the composition's debut performance in its namesake city on August 6th, 2001, the 56th anniversary of that fateful 1945 day.The 15-minute first movement of the emotional three-part suite begins with ...
A Fireside Chat With Toshiko Akiyoshi
by AAJ Staff
The marriage of composition and arrangement is not an easy one in modern music. Dedication to history coupled with invention of tomorrow makes the task even more daunting. Toshiko Akiyoshi has been doing just that for the past thirty years with her big band. What is impressive is not the time, but the quality of her ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra: Hiroshima
by Jim Santella
Dedicated to the memory of a city that experienced the unfathomable horrors of war in 1945, Toshiko Akiyoshi’s extended work for big band sizzles. There’s a lesson here for all mankind. In the early movements of her suite, everything’s all right. The band swings with its usual Monday night balance and tips its hat to one ...
Toshiko Plays Toshiko - Time Stream
Label: Ninety-One
Released: 1997
Track listing: Long Yellow Road; Memory; Kogun; Interlude; Studio J; Farewell To Mingus; Deracinated Flower; The First Night; Jammin' At Carnegie; Time Stream;
