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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. She has 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 1996, she published her autobiography, Life with Jazz, and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the .

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Toshiko Akiyoshi In Japan (Liberty (J) LPC-8049). Lew Tabackin, tenor sax, flute; Toshiko Akiyoshi, piano; Bob Daugherty, bass; Mickey Roker, drums. Osaka Expo Hall", Osaka, Japan, August 18 & 19, 1970.

Toshiko Akiyoshi's unique contributions to the jazz world have evolved like falling dominoes through a series of events that started with a piano-loving little Japanese girl in Manchuria and brought her to prominence as an unparalleled pianist, composer and leader of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra. Manchurian-born Akiyoshi's interest in the piano started at age six, and by the time her family had moved back to Japan at the end of World War II. Toshiko had developed a real love for music

Akiyoshi Toshiko is a world-renowned jazz pianist and the only Japanese musician to have received the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award recognizing jazz legends. She has been based in the United States since 1956. One of the first performers to manage it was jazz pianist Akiyoshi Toshiko. Discovering Jazz in Postwar Japan. Born in 1929 in Japanese colonial ruled Manchuria, Akiyoshi first took up the piano while still in the first grade. At the end of World War II she repatriated with her family, settling in Ōita Prefecture. She started performing professionally at 16, working as a jazz pianist at a US military base in the famous hot springs town of Beppu. Following the advice of a musician friend, she moved to Tokyo in 1948. At the time the city was bustling with occupation troops.