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9:15 PM Lew Tabackin/randy Brecker Quartet Honoring Toshiko Akiyoshi at The Nash

Courtesy of Lorene Ely | Posted on February 19, 2023

Where

The Nash
110 E Roosevelt St
Phoenix, AZ
Map
(602) 795-0464

When

Fri, March 17, 2023
9:15 pm

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Musicians

Lew Tabackin
saxophone, tenor

About

As part of The Nash’s celebration of Women in History month, This show will be dedicated to Toshiko ,who will be presented with The Nash Beacon Award in a video during the show. Born in 1929, Toshiko Akiyoshi changed the face of jazz music over her sixty-year career. As one of few women and Asian musicians in the jazz world, Akiyoshi infused Japanese culture, sounds, and instruments into her music. As a pianist, bandleader, and composer-arranger, Akiyoshi cemented her place as one of the most important jazz musicians of the twentieth century.

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