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Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio; Cathlene Piñeda Group; at Angel City Jazz Festival at Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
Courtesy of Marshall Lamm | Posted on July 21, 2014
Where
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
Angel City Jazz Festival
631 W 2nd St.
Los Angeles, CA
Map
213-237-2800
When
Fri, September 26, 2014
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Toshiko Akiyoshi
pianoAbout
NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi will perform at REDCAT on September 26 with her trio including Paul Gill on bass and Aaron Kimmel on drums. Over the course of a six-decade career, pianist, bandleader, and composer-arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi has made a unique and vital contribution to the art of big band jazz. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best Arranger and Composer awards in DownBeat magazine's Readers Poll. This concert is presented by The Jazz Bakery, and is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts...