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!
@mohitoness
6 жыл бұрын
is music better todfay?
@miguelgutierrez5692
3 жыл бұрын
@@mohitoness hahaha, perfect!
@tk1950
Жыл бұрын
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.
Beautiful jazz, just beautiful. Thank you Toshiko.
@mikicorp
7 жыл бұрын
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..!
@TomE1248
2 жыл бұрын
What was the story of how she learned jazz?
@TONEBHURT
9 жыл бұрын
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.
@sean6748
11 жыл бұрын
Akiyoshi is truly amazing
@anagoA75
3 ай бұрын
最高です♪ 秋吉敏子さん大好きなピアニストです!
@kandremandre
14 жыл бұрын
A true gem ! I think this is the Toshiko's oldest footage that exists to this day... Many thanks for posting !!!
@jazzermarialourdes
13 жыл бұрын
how wonderful pianist is she!!!! GREAT!!!!
@jazzrealities
10 жыл бұрын
jazzrealities The Ellington tune is "I let a song go out of my heart"
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.
@billybobjoe198
9 жыл бұрын
Damn nigga you old as fuck.
@hetmanjz
9 жыл бұрын
A nice memory to have!
@hetmanjz
9 жыл бұрын
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?
@hetmanjz
9 жыл бұрын
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.)
@billybobjoe198
9 жыл бұрын
Jan Zamojski This guy.
@user-oo4gh7vh7x
10 ай бұрын
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。
@miluza8723
9 ай бұрын
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。
@elandardelcaracol5336
2 жыл бұрын
No cabe duda que la música rompe barreras.
@brunote76
14 жыл бұрын
@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.
@mikebassy
15 жыл бұрын
she sounds exellent !!!! and i love the traditional dress code , she`s beautiful .
@rodrigoromero550
2 жыл бұрын
Impeccable.
@TheJT777
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your precious performance, Mr. Akiyoshi.
@ukestudio3002
Жыл бұрын
You mean at her creation ?
@Solomadin
7 жыл бұрын
Amazing Toshiko! Many thanks for posting! Greetings from Ukraine!)
@sockrepairman
13 жыл бұрын
amazing video
@cgmmv
11 жыл бұрын
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.
@franciscusrebro1416
4 жыл бұрын
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)
@pierreduchesne0001
3 жыл бұрын
@@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".
@hetmanjz
3 жыл бұрын
@@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. kzitem.info/news/bejne/mHiIrZeZhnh9Z3o
@pierreduchesne0001
3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@earlrobicheaux2632
8 ай бұрын
Definite Bud Powell influence.
@Kwame1959
3 жыл бұрын
She was a total bad-ass!!!
@anselmo1844
8 жыл бұрын
que placer escuchar esta mujer mucho talento !!!! para mis amigos!!!
@enriqueluarteveloso523
2 ай бұрын
Realmente sorprendente. Bravooooo
@Thouveninpascal
3 ай бұрын
Très très bop.
@kennethvick
9 жыл бұрын
Yeah!
@baribarium
15 жыл бұрын
She sounds like Bud Powell! B.P. is still alive. Grazie
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
He is ? No sarcasm
@vova47
4 ай бұрын
Bud in kimono!
@condereims
5 жыл бұрын
Happy B-Day !!! (Dec,12th,1929)
@caponsacchi
11 жыл бұрын
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.
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
Actually Prokofiev and Stravinsky should quote fro TOSHIKO
@mochiam
13 жыл бұрын
I must be in a parallel world!!!! never heard about her before!!!!!! My god!!!!
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
The female BUD POWELL
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
Actually BUD maybe the male TOSHIKO
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
You may have a point there
@traneshepp4584
11 жыл бұрын
着物で、こんなPIANO弾いたら人気だろうな!
@katella12
13 жыл бұрын
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.
@isogh
Жыл бұрын
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、、、
@chowmein5947
7 жыл бұрын
holy shit
@DuaEdu
3 жыл бұрын
Uau
@jilltorvaney5105
7 жыл бұрын
wow!!!!!!x
@Wizardofgosz
6 жыл бұрын
I just watched the whats my line episode with her on it, where Steve Allen invited her on his show. Did that ever happen?
@mabelnormand7244
6 жыл бұрын
Richard Wielgosz I'm looking, and it doesn't seem so. I came here because I also watched that What's My Line episode!
@k5laman
6 жыл бұрын
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.
@jiyujizai
3 жыл бұрын
😃💛🌱🌸
@lisaann3830
11 жыл бұрын
lol. YES!
@agfagaevart
13 жыл бұрын
A jazz musician in a kimono????? I LIKE THIS!!!
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
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.
@t4fnut
11 жыл бұрын
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.
@gyawareturns2
12 жыл бұрын
日本人でBud Powellサウンドが出せるのは秋吉敏子だけッ
@caponsacchi
11 жыл бұрын
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.
@blue47er
15 жыл бұрын
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.
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! :)
@godswiph
15 жыл бұрын
I'm hearing a lot of Bill Evans... did they hang out or anything?
@Zosh1
14 жыл бұрын
A testament to the Berklee College of Music. Thanks for this.
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
She doesn’t need Berklee college of music… they need her
The song is "The Third Movement" and was written by Toshiko.
@fi1784
Жыл бұрын
何て言う曲ですか? What's the name of the song?
@88esquire
18 күн бұрын
The second tune is the standard "I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart".
@user-xc5le9pv6g
6 жыл бұрын
Whats the first song played?
@glennwisniewski9536
3 жыл бұрын
The song is "The Third Movement" and was written by Toshiko.
@cgmmv
13 жыл бұрын
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.
was'nt she married to Charley Mariano for a while?
@dancelli714
6 жыл бұрын
Her and Mariano recorded together and later her other husband, Lou Tabakin and her recorded in her big band. I have their video, excellent.
@bmbacchus
4 жыл бұрын
Lot of Hampton Hawes in the first outing.
@juniperwoodgreen4090
7 жыл бұрын
They should have called this piece The Kimono Key Jazzy Blues...
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
Hey jun ….. the 1940’s are calling go back
@Hoopermazing
12 жыл бұрын
@NezRiverzz Yes, but more importantly, Oscar Peterson saw it.
@parkourGumby
14 жыл бұрын
Anybody know the name of the Duke tune? Such beautiful harmony
@julianvickery8341
6 жыл бұрын
'I Let a Song Go Out of Hy Heart' , but the beautiful harmony you hear on this particular version is Toshiko's own arrangement.
@spacebuffalo
11 жыл бұрын
caponsacchi: Are you suggesting that Horace Silver knows nothing about music? Please don't go there.
@user-jn1bv3lr5l
3 жыл бұрын
ふぁきーのげんてんか?!
@user-jn1bv3lr5l
3 жыл бұрын
着物がおにあい!
@user-jn1bv3lr5l
3 жыл бұрын
ふぁんきーのげんてんか!
@florentlariviere6100
2 жыл бұрын
@@user-jn1bv3lr5l Oui, c'est vrai !
@paintpot2
13 жыл бұрын
"little Japanese girl plays like Bud Powell..."
@rssell
14 жыл бұрын
Purely amazing.... especially since Japanese etiquette seems to largely forbid improvisation.
@zeeqwan6477
3 жыл бұрын
Petite Japanese girl destroys piano
@ChipChipBreak
15 жыл бұрын
is she korean or japanese? her name sounds japanese.
@julianvickery8341
6 жыл бұрын
Japanese.
@glennwisniewski9536
3 жыл бұрын
Japanese.
@marshallsobin4879
Жыл бұрын
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….
@noidelaplatja
11 жыл бұрын
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.
Пікірлер: 118