Toshiko akiyoshi biography of william shakespeare
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Born on December 18, , in Dairen, Manchuria, China; daughter of Tatsuro and Shigeko (Hiraike) Akiyoshi; married Charlie Mariano (a saxophonist), ; divorced; married Lewis Tabackin (a saxophonist and flutist), ; children: Michiru Mariano.
Education: Graduated from Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, Addresses: Record company--Columbia Records, Madison Ave., New York, NY , ()
Manchurian-born Japanese pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, as an Asian woman pursuing jazz in America, battled many prejudices and stereotypes at the onset of her career.
Toshiko akiyoshi biography of william shakespeare
Indeed, upon her arrival in the United States in , she generated more attention for her appearance than for her musicianship. "I got a lot of press. You know why? Because I was an oddity," she recalled to Zan Stewart in the Los Angeles Times. "In those days, a Japanese woman playing like [jazz pianist] Bud Powell was something very new.
So all the press, the attention, wasn't because I was authentic. It was because I was strange," she adde