Word: toshiko
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When she opened in Manhattan last week, a pressagent told Toshiko that she should wear a kimono all the time because she was, after all, the only female jazz pianist from Japan. As a concession, she wears a kimono on Saturday nights (the obi is apt to be too tight for really freewheeling playing, she complains), but the rest of the time she performs in Western cocktail dresses. Behind the piano at the Hickory House, across the way from West 52nd Street's sagging strip joints, Toshiko Akiyoshi demonstrates that she need not rely on costume for her success...
...blonde and bustling, Pia is one in a series of foreign jazz pianists-including a blind Scotsman (Joe Saye). an Argentine (Enrique Villegas). a German (Jutta Hipp) and a Japanese (Toshiko AkiyoshH -currently performing in the U.S. These pianists represent a reimported export, and Netherlander Beck is a fine sample of how exportable and reimportable jazz is. If Bach fugues can be learned outside Germany, there seems to be no reason why New Orleans riffs cannot be learned out side the U.S. "I dig jive," says the girl from Holland, "but the most important thing is not to goof when...
Odette and the prince, while slim Toshiko Saiga showed her Paris training in her warm and free movements as Odile...
...Toshiko (Norgran LP). A Japanese girl pianist called Toshiko plays jazz in the style of Bud Powell, crisper than Marion McPartland, less mellow than Oscar Peterson (who discovered her in a Tokyo nightclub), but able and inventive...
...Geisha houses, brightly kimonoed girls plucked their banjo-like samisen and trilled sentimental Japanese favorites like the Rain Blues, the Song of Beauty, the Innocence Duet. When a boisterous American asked for the Japanese national anthem, the girls refused but obliged with You Are My Sunshine. Toshiko Yamaguchi, once one of Japan's most popular singers, came home from a Shanghai internment camp with a new repertoire that included Star Dust...