page_title: Toshiko Akiyoshi
hierarchical_section_title: Toshiko Akiyoshi
caption_attribution_description: Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1978. (Photo: Brian McMillen / contact: brianmcmillen@hotmail.com)
context_page_description: Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese-American jazz musician. She is a pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader. She has been nominated for fourteen Grammy Awards. She was the first woman to win best arranger and composer awards in DownBeat magazine's annual readers' poll. In 1996, she published her autobiography, Life with Jazz.
  Akiyoshi was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria, China. After the end of World War II, she moved to Beppu with her family.
context_section_description: Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉 敏子 or 穐吉 敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko, born December 12, 1929) is a Japanese-American jazz musician. She is a pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader. She has been nominated for fourteen Grammy Awards.  She was the first woman to win best arranger and composer awards in DownBeat magazine's annual readers' poll. In 1996, she published her autobiography, Life with Jazz.
  Akiyoshi was born in Liaoyang, Manchuria, China. After the end of World War II, she moved to Beppu with her family.
caption: Akiyoshi in 1978
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