Jazz Is My Native Language
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Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a documentary film by Renee Cho about the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band
leader Toshiko Akiyoshi
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Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
leader Toshiko Akiyoshi
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. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...
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