Toshiko Akiyoshi & Ru Tabakin is Popular music Classic music event held in Japan.
Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist. Peterson was impressed, and convinced record producer Norman Granz to record Akiyoshi. In 1952, during a tour of Japan, pianist Oscar Peterson discovered Akiyoshi playing in a club on the Ginza.
She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's Readers Poll. Akiyoshi studied jazz in Boston at the Berklee School of Music. Akiyoshi was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria to Japanese emigrants.
Akiyoshi immediately loved the sound, and began to study jazz.
Lew Tabackin was interviewed by Linus Wyrsch on "The Jazz Hole" for breakthruradio.com in July 2011 - Lew Tabackin Interview by breakthruradio.com Lewis Barry Tabackin (born March 26, 1940) is a jazz flutist and tenor saxophonist. Tabackin studied flute at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and also studied music with composer Vincent Persichetti.
He is married to pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, with whom he has co-led large ensembles since the 1970s. They formed a quartet in the late 1960s, married in 1969, and in 1973 co-founded the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band in Los Angeles, which later became the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra featuring Lew Tabackin, playing bebop in Duke Ellington-influenced arrangements and compositions by Akiyoshi.
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Tokyo (Japanese: [toːkjoː] , English /ˈ t oʊ k i . oʊ / ), officially Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government. Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Formerly known as Edo, it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters. It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture (東京府 , Tōkyō-fu) and the city of Tokyo (東京市 , Tōkyō-shi) .
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