Word: toshiko
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...chunks of debris dating back to the earliest days of the solar system, meteorites are intently studied by scientists for any clues they may offer to the primordial past. But even the highest expectations did not prepare University of Chicago Scientists Robert Clayton, Lawrence Grossman and Toshiko K. Mayeda for what they discovered while studying fragments of the Allende meteorite, found near Pueblito de Allende in Mexico in 1969. Tiny grains of dust imbedded in the chips contained an isotope of oxygen (oxygen 16) in virtually pure form. Ordinary oxygen in the earth's atmosphere−and presumably that...
...Toshiko Mariano Quartet (Candid). A husband-and-wife team-Saxophonist Charlie Mariano and Japanese Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi-in one of the year's most successful exercises for small combo. Akiyoshi has developed into a pianist of extraordinary fire and fluency, and Mariano displays-particularly in his remarkable reading of Deep River-a warm, lyric tone that flows like honey from the horn. Nothing in the album is better than Akiyoshi's own Long Yellow Road, a wistful musical memory of the long, straight roads back home in Manchuria...
...Toshiko: Her Trio Her Quartet (Storyville). Japanese Jazz Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi takes off on some fiery lyrical flights in this selection of eight compositions, two of them her own (Salute to Shorty, Pea, Bee and Lee). She is at her best in a couple of high, animated conversations with Alto Saxophonist Boots Mussulli (/'// Remember April, Kelo...
Back home in Japan, Pianist Toshiko, 27, used to listen to all of them on records -Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie. She would take down the melodies and try to decide why they improvised as they did. Her father was an industrialist in Manchuria, and she studied classical piano there until the family was forced to return to Japan by the Chinese civil war. Toshiko prepared for medical school, but when she got a job playing with a dance band at the U.S. Army officers' club, she decided she wanted to be a pianist instead...
Eventually, Toshiko would like to go back to Japan: "The position of the jazz musician there is so low now that I feel a responsibility to do something about it. I'd like to go back and start an orchestra for the movies, and once a month or so we could present a jazz concert." But she knows also that Japan is not a challenging place for developing jazz talent; the competition is too thin. "When you push against a wall," says Toshiko, "you know you are pushing. When you push a curtain, it gives...