A Mosaic of Music: Jazz Pianist, Composer, and Arranger Akiyoshi Toshiko

Akiyoshi’s first album Toshiko’s Piano, released in 1954.

Kogun, the first album by the Toshiko Akiyoshi–Lew Tabackin Big Band, released in 1974.

Akiyoshi performs “Hiroshima: Rising from the Abyss” at a concert for world peace on August 6, 2001 at the Hiroshima Kōsei Nenkin Hall, Hiroshima, marking the first anniversary in the twenty-first century of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. (© Jiji)