''Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi'' is a 1983 documentary film by Renee Cho about the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and
big band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s ...
leader
Toshiko Akiyoshi
is a Japanese–American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in '' Down Beat'' magazine's annual Readers' Poll. ...
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References
*Ing, Sarah. Synopsis.
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Jazz Is My Native Language (1983/84)' review, 2011 February 8.
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External links
*Jazz is My Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyosh
at Center for Asian American Media*Jazz is My Native Language..
at University of California, Berkeley Library
*Jazz is My Native Language..
at Temple University Television
American documentary films
Documentary films about jazz music and musicians
1983 films
1983 documentary films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films
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