Absolutely impeccable. At this time in history with so much discrimination at the forefront of society, jazz gave artists like Toshiko, Billy and many others an unlimited freedom of musical and personal expression that cut through the ignorance promulgated by American society. When Toshiko plays, you can see it in her expressions, you can hear it musically with the improvisational embellishments. Society is worlds better today, but this was such an unprecedented time. Wonderful piece of music!
I wish Society was better today. It certainly is more divisive, and obvious. Many forms of art were much better in the Mesopotamian era, as well as the Renaissance, the Golden Age of Cinema, and the 1960's ! Yet Jazz continues to evolve and be listenable to all walks of life.
I listened Toshiko @New Port Jazz Festival on Jul 31, 16. She played @NPJF 60 yrs ago according to George Wayne. She no longer has sparkle like this, but great ballad on piano solo there. She also told us story how she learned jazz in Japan.... great story. Hope she keeps playing..!
@parkourGumby the tune's called 'I let a song go out of my heart' , but the beautiful harmony you hear on this particular version is Toshiko's own arrangement. The original is still great but much simpler.
Anthony Robinson Mr. billybobjoe198 called a stranger a "nigga" and told her she's "old as fuck." And then called me a "prick" and told me I'm "not special." But apparently he's special enough to take those kind of liberties with people he doesn't know. (By the way, not sure how billybobjoe198 would know *when* cieobt2 was in 6th grade. Since Akiyoshi is still performing, cieobt2 could be under 30 for all we know. Anyway, cieobt2 never responded to the original jab, which was probably the best way not to dignify it.)
The annnouncer at the 2:00 mark is the late Willis Conover, the wonderful disc jockey on the Voice of America who introduced jazz to millions of people around the world on shortwave radio, for decades.
Tristano came at his music from a place of intellectual theory, but comparing him with Bud is like comparing Konitz with Paul Desmond. Bird, Diz, Bud, Desmond and Toshiko played the music they felt, the melodies that rose out of their backgrounds and personal experience. Just because you can't hear Paul quoting from Stravinsky, Prokoviev and Van Heusen in his passionate solo on "Just the Way You Look Tonight" doesn't alter the Romanticism of his playing. Listening, like playing, is hard work.
Actually, this was the first time she wore kimono in her life. She was asked to do that by the media, treated as an exotic Japanese girl playing jazz piano.
I know you said this 7 years ago but just curious if you have a source. (Not that I don't believe you, just would like to see whatever interview or something you heard this)
@@franciscusrebro1416 Based on the book of E Taylor Atkins, "Blue Nippon - Authenticating Jazz in Japan", Duke U Press, p.182: "Hawes wrote that 'Be-bop' showed him around the local jazz spots, including the Harlem Club, a Yokohama club managed by American Ray Bass, where a young female pianist was performing. 'That little chick in a kimono sat right down at the piano and started to rip off things I didn't believe', Hawes recollected, 'swinging like she'd grown up in Kansas City.' The pianist was Akiyoshi Toshiko, and the encounter marked the beginning of her ascension as a major jazz star".
@@franciscusrebro1416 Akiyoshi definitely wore a kimono two years earlier, in March of 1956, when she appeared on the TV game show "What's My Line," so that alone pretty much refutes the "first time in her life" claim. ua-cam.com/video/7BRGccMFL4E/v-deo.html
@@hetmanjz Jan, I don't know how you knew this performance by the young pianist prodigy Toshiko Akiyoshi. In today's standards, can we feel some form of condescension? I don't know, because honestly, Steve Allen has such finesse that we can only laugh at some of his jokes. This document is REMARKABLE. Thank you very much for sharing the link. I am a huge fan of Japanese jazz. I know the importance of Toshiko Akiyoshi, the "Hiromi Uehara" of the 1950s, the one that opened so many doors to all those Japanese musicians who now, for example, attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. This document is a precious historical piece. Thanks again. Pierre Duchesne
It wasn't pure show biz. Listen to Toshiko's Mosaic Box Set (all her RCA recordings from the '70s). She frequently blends ancient Japanese forms with Bud's bebop complexity.
Why is world-renowned economist Milton Friedman introducing a jazz pianist? Well, that’s who it looks like, and sounds like, to me. Too funny. Anyway, nice seeing some vintage Akiyoshi.
So, what’s the problem…. can’t a virtuoso not be sexy….. nobody has a problem with SOPHIE MUTTER -- concert violinist-- wearing strapless gowns-- that is unless the producers demand these women dresss a certain way.
For me, who studies japanese and sometimes listens to Jazz, it feels so strange to see a japanese woman playing the piano wearing a kimono... Definitely a very interesting combination! :)
This was her first time to wear kimono. While she was in China and Japan, she never played piano with kimono. She was dressed with kimono by TV station.
Bebop was never a soulfull style, would you say Bud Powell or Tristano played soulfully? In fact their sound was quite mechanical, high rhythms, right hand runs... I would say Toshiko played at the highest level, excellent technique and her voicings are impeccable.
Exotic looking but a xenophobic decision by the media…..that just trivializes the music and makes her a chacacture…….sexy young girl WP just happens to be a virtuoso pianist….
日本史上最高のピアニスト。
よくもあの時代の日本にこんなすごい人が出現したと思う。
奇跡だろ。いまだに超える人は出ていないと思う。
貴重な映像ありがとうございます。
和服でスタジオに乗りこんでいった姿に圧倒されました。
最高の音ですね。子供はいませんが、かわいい姪っ子のピアノ練習の音で昔癒やされました。ピアノ🎹最高!👍🇯🇵😉😁😁秋吉さん!最高!👍👍🇯🇵🇺🇸
和服でJAZZ！カッコよすぎます！
Absolutely impeccable. At this time in history with so much discrimination at the forefront of society, jazz gave artists like Toshiko, Billy and many others an unlimited freedom of musical and personal expression that cut through the ignorance promulgated by American society. When Toshiko plays, you can see it in her expressions, you can hear it musically with the improvisational embellishments. Society is worlds better today, but this was such an unprecedented time. Wonderful piece of music!
is music better todfay?
@@mohitoness hahaha, perfect!
I wish Society was better today. It certainly is more divisive, and obvious. Many forms of art were much better in the Mesopotamian era, as well as the Renaissance, the Golden Age of Cinema, and the 1960's ! Yet Jazz continues to evolve and be listenable to all walks of life.
@@mohitoness No way!
@@mohitonessUH…. Not exactly….
モノマネだと言われてそれに反骨精神でオリジナルビックバンドを作りジャズ界のトップに上り詰めました。
インサイツの水俣を正座して聴きました。そして最後の作品、希望で涙しました。
まだ最後かどうか分かりませんが。
Just saw her on what's my line from the 1950s. Got curious, and here she is. Just fantastic, and still alive at 94 years.
Saw her with her then husband Lew Tabakin on the New Haven green some years ago.
It is so fascinating! This was from the '50s and she is still alive.
God bless her.
最高です♪
秋吉敏子さん大好きなピアニストです！
マジかっけぇ！最高！日本の誇り！
I listened Toshiko @New Port Jazz Festival on Jul 31, 16. She played @NPJF 60 yrs ago according to George Wayne. She no longer has sparkle like this, but great ballad on piano solo there. She also told us story how she learned jazz in Japan.... great story. Hope she keeps playing..!
What was the story of how she learned jazz?
Beautiful jazz, just beautiful. Thank you Toshiko.
A true gem ! I think this is the Toshiko's oldest footage that exists to this day...
Many thanks for posting !!!
早くから狭い日本を飛び出した、当に尊敬に値する女性ピアニスト。
たしかジャズでバークレーに国費留学第一号。二人目が渡辺貞夫。
Akiyoshi is truly amazing
The greatest! It is so good to hear and see her at this early stage in her career. I love Eddie Safranski and Ed Thigpen too.
@parkourGumby the tune's called 'I let a song go out of my heart' , but the beautiful harmony you hear on this particular version is Toshiko's own arrangement. The original is still great but much simpler.
how wonderful pianist is she!!!! GREAT!!!!
She was a total bad-ass!!!
やっぱりこの人はきっぱりとした鳴らし方がかっこいい。
着物は本人が望んだのかなあ、、、
Great tosiko piano playing
jazzrealities
The Ellington tune is "I let a song go out of my heart"
Totally amazing!
元気頂きました
ありがとう
感謝します・・・。
No cabe duda que la música rompe barreras.
Thank you for your precious performance, Mr. Akiyoshi.
You mean at her creation ?
I remember seeing Akiyoshi on TV when I was in the sixth grade and thinking this was so cool--she really got le jazz and in her own way.
Damn nigga you old as fuck.
A nice memory to have!
Anthony Robinson Why are you even visiting this channel if you can't do anything less pointless than agree with some other hatebot's rudeness?
Anthony Robinson Mr. billybobjoe198 called a stranger a "nigga" and told her she's "old as fuck." And then called me a "prick" and told me I'm "not special." But apparently he's special enough to take those kind of liberties with people he doesn't know. (By the way, not sure how billybobjoe198 would know *when* cieobt2 was in 6th grade. Since Akiyoshi is still performing, cieobt2 could be under 30 for all we know. Anyway, cieobt2 never responded to the original jab, which was probably the best way not to dignify it.)
Jan Zamojski This guy.
she sounds exellent !!!! and i love the traditional dress code , she`s beautiful .
The annnouncer at the 2:00 mark is the late Willis Conover, the wonderful disc jockey on the Voice of America who introduced jazz to millions of people around the world on shortwave radio, for decades.
Fabulous! I'm so glad to see this!
Amazing Toshiko! Many thanks for posting! Greetings from Ukraine!)
Sensational!
Wonderful!!
Gives me Lennie Tristano/Bud Powell Vibes...This is great!
ua-cam.com/video/TaSDinL6pC8/v-deo.htmlsi=jBO2hLqg86e_aTzz
que placer escuchar esta mujer mucho talento !!!! para mis amigos!!!
She sounds like Bud Powell! B.P. is still alive. Grazie
He is ? No sarcasm
Tristano came at his music from a place of intellectual theory, but comparing him with Bud is like comparing Konitz with Paul Desmond. Bird, Diz, Bud, Desmond and Toshiko played the music they felt, the melodies that rose out of their backgrounds and personal experience. Just because you can't hear Paul quoting from Stravinsky, Prokoviev and Van Heusen in his passionate solo on "Just the Way You Look Tonight" doesn't alter the Romanticism of his playing. Listening, like playing, is hard work.
Actually Prokofiev and Stravinsky should quote fro TOSHIKO
Impeccable.
凄いわ。世界の秋吉敏子！
Happy B-Day !!! (Dec,12th,1929)
着物で、こんなPIANO弾いたら人気だろうな！
Actually, this was the first time she wore kimono in her life. She was asked to do that by the media, treated as an exotic Japanese girl playing jazz piano.
I know you said this 7 years ago but just curious if you have a source. (Not that I don't believe you, just would like to see whatever interview or something you heard this)
@@franciscusrebro1416 Based on the book of E Taylor Atkins, "Blue Nippon - Authenticating Jazz in Japan", Duke U Press, p.182: "Hawes wrote that 'Be-bop' showed him around the local jazz spots, including the Harlem Club, a Yokohama club managed by American Ray Bass, where a young female pianist was performing. 'That little chick in a kimono sat right down at the piano and started to rip off things I didn't believe', Hawes recollected, 'swinging like she'd grown up in Kansas City.' The pianist was Akiyoshi Toshiko, and the encounter marked the beginning of her ascension as a major jazz star".
@@franciscusrebro1416 Akiyoshi definitely wore a kimono two years earlier, in March of 1956, when she appeared on the TV game show "What's My Line," so that alone pretty much refutes the "first time in her life" claim. ua-cam.com/video/7BRGccMFL4E/v-deo.html
@@hetmanjz Jan, I don't know how you knew this performance by the young pianist prodigy Toshiko Akiyoshi. In today's standards, can we feel some form of condescension? I don't know, because honestly, Steve Allen has such finesse that we can only laugh at some of his jokes. This document is REMARKABLE. Thank you very much for sharing the link. I am a huge fan of Japanese jazz. I know the importance of Toshiko Akiyoshi, the "Hiromi Uehara" of the 1950s, the one that opened so many doors to all those Japanese musicians who now, for example, attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. This document is a precious historical piece. Thanks again. Pierre Duchesne
Très très bop.
Realmente sorprendente.
Bravooooo
着物姿の龝吉敏子のピアノ演奏ですが、たぶんノーマン-グランツのアイディアだと思います。アップ有難うございます。
amazing video
和服を来てこの滑るような指使いでの演奏。確かにオスカーピーターソンみたいだ。
I just watched the whats my line episode with her on it, where Steve Allen invited her on his show. Did that ever happen?
Richard Wielgosz I'm looking, and it doesn't seem so. I came here because I also watched that What's My Line episode!
I also came here after seeing her on WML. I did a brief search for her on Steve's show before coming here & didn't find it.
@@mabelnormand7244Same.
I must be in a parallel world!!!! never heard about her before!!!!!! My god!!!!
Wow!!!
Definite Bud Powell influence.
It wasn't pure show biz. Listen to Toshiko's Mosaic Box Set (all her RCA recordings from the '70s). She frequently blends ancient Japanese forms with Bud's bebop complexity.
すごい！
どなたかこの2曲のタイトルを教えていただけないでしょうか？？
Bud Powell, yes, but a good measure of Hampton Hawes (her great friend) is audible in this piece, though she is a truly fine pianist in her own right.
😃💛🌱🌸
Why is world-renowned economist Milton Friedman introducing a jazz pianist? Well, that’s who it looks like, and sounds like, to me. Too funny. Anyway, nice seeing some vintage Akiyoshi.
Yeah!
holy shit
A jazz musician in a kimono?????
I LIKE THIS!!!
So, what’s the problem…. can’t a virtuoso not be sexy….. nobody has a problem with SOPHIE MUTTER -- concert violinist-- wearing strapless gowns-- that is unless the producers demand these women dresss a certain way.
Uau
Bud in kimono!
日本人でBud Powellサウンドが出せるのは秋吉敏子だけッ
For me, who studies japanese and sometimes listens to Jazz, it feels so strange to see a japanese woman playing the piano wearing a kimono... Definitely a very interesting combination! :)
The female BUD POWELL
Actually BUD maybe the male TOSHIKO
You may have a point there
About 20 years old and about 20 before the TT BAND…. She’s the female equivalent of BOTH ART TATUM AND BUD POWELL….
This was her first time to wear kimono.
While she was in China and Japan, she never played piano with kimono.
She was dressed with kimono by TV station.
敏子さん若っw 時おり見せるはにかんだ顔がとてもチャーミングですね。
貴重な映像ありがとうございます。
A testament to the Berklee College of Music. Thanks for this.
She doesn’t need Berklee college of music… they need her
lol. YES!
wow!!!!!!x
Purely amazing.... especially since Japanese etiquette seems to largely forbid improvisation.
何て言う曲ですか？
What's the name of the song?
The second tune is the standard "I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart".
documentary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Is_My_Native_Language
164k views
I'm hearing a lot of Bill Evans... did they hang out or anything?
The way she plays , she probably gave BILL EVANS LESSONS.
was'nt she married to Charley Mariano for a while?
Her and Mariano recorded together and later her other husband, Lou Tabakin and her recorded in her big band. I have their video, excellent.
what is the first song？
The song is "The Third Movement" and was written by Toshiko.
"little Japanese girl plays like Bud Powell..."
Lot of Hampton Hawes in the first outing.
They should have called this piece The Kimono Key Jazzy Blues...
Hey jun ….. the 1940’s are calling go back
ふぁきーのげんてんか？！
着物がおにあい！
ふぁんきーのげんてんか！
@@川波清司-o7w Oui, c'est vrai !
@NezRiverzz Yes, but more importantly, Oscar Peterson saw it.
Anybody know the name of the Duke tune? Such beautiful harmony
'I Let a Song Go Out of Hy Heart' , but the beautiful harmony you hear on this particular version is Toshiko's own arrangement.
Whats the first song played?
The song is "The Third Movement" and was written by Toshiko.
caponsacchi: Are you suggesting that Horace Silver knows nothing about music? Please don't go there.
Bebop was never a soulfull style, would you say Bud Powell or Tristano played soulfully? In fact their sound was quite mechanical, high rhythms, right hand runs... I would say Toshiko played at the highest level, excellent technique and her voicings are impeccable.
Petite Japanese girl destroys piano
is she korean or japanese?
her name sounds japanese.
Japanese.
Japanese.
Like it’s important?
Exotic looking but a xenophobic decision by the media…..that just trivializes the music and makes her a chacacture…….sexy young girl WP just happens to be a virtuoso pianist….
Sushi powell
What’s that supposed to mean?