Toshiko Akiyoshi
- Actress
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer and pianist who has made many records, she was educated at the
Music Academy of Dairen and the Berklee School of Music (the latter on
scholarship). She studied with Margaret Chaloff. She was piano soloist
with the Japan Philharmonic, and a pianist in dance bands from 1948,
forming the Toshiko-Mariano Quartet with her husband Charles Mariano.
Her compositions include "A Jazz Suite for Strings, Woodwinds" (which
received the Mademoiselle Award); "My Elegy"; and "Silhouette". Her
popular songs include "Long Yellow Road" and "Between Me and
Myself".