The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and master tenor saxophonist Lew Tabackin will celebrate the magisterial legacy of composer and pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi who the National Women’s History Museum says, “changed the face of jazz music over her sixty-year career. As one of few women and Asian musicians in the jazz world, Toshiko 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.”
Co-music directed by Ted Nash, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Lew Tabackin will play Toshiko Akiyoshi’s monumental compositions and will be joined by the iconic pianist-composer on stage for part of the performance.
The Music of Toshiko Akiyoshi will take place on March 10 &11 at 8:00 pm in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street in New York, NY.
Manchuria-born, ethnically Japanese, Akiyoshi has been a force on the international scene since 1952, when the iconic pianist Oscar Peterson, on tour with Jazz at the Philharmonic, heard her in Tokyo and insisted that JATP impresario Norman Granz record her. Akiyoshi—who moved to the U.S. in 1956, and will be 93 at the time of the concert—has impressed both for the comprehensive mastery and fierce distillation of the language of bebop master Bud Powell that she was able to assimilate early on in isolation from the U.S. scene and for her evocative corpus of sui generis works since 1973 for the Akiyoshi-Tabackin Orchestra with Lew Tabackin (who will play tenor saxophone and flute on this evening), combining swing, bebop, classical, and elements drawn from her Japanese heritage.
The Music of Toshiko Akiyoshi continues the orchestra’s season of cross-cultural offerings that illuminate, actualize, and reaffirm the notion of jazz as a global language and the music’s power to bridge divides and coalesce distinct communities.
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Ticket Information
Ticket prices for Rose Theater are $40 and up dependent upon seating section.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 35th season runs from through June 10, 2023 in Rose Theater, The Appel Room, and Dizzy’s Club – all at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located at Broadway at 60th Street in New York, NY. In addition to 22 unique live concerts throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall and more than 350 nights of music in Dizzy’s Club, the organization will offer webcast performances, in-person and virtual education programs, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis tour dates worldwide.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is presented by the Arnhold Family.
Leadership support for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is provided by Michele and Mark Mandel, the Perry
and Donna Golkin Family Foundation, and the Zou Family Fund.
Leadership support for Jazz at Lincoln Center is made possible through America’s Cultural Treasures, a sponsored project of
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant through the leadership
and support of Senator Charles E. Schumer and the New York Congressional Delegation.
Leadership support for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s concert season is provided by
Jody and John Arnhold and Lynne and Richard Pasculano.
Leadership support is also provided by an Anonymous Donor; Jody and John Arnhold;
Howard Gilman Foundation, Inc.Mellody Hobson and George Lucas; and Dalio Philanthropies.
Major support is provided by Abrams Foundation; The Ambrose Monell Foundation, and Seedlings Foundation.
Generous support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor
and the New York State Legislature.
Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly acknowledges its major corporate partners: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Con Edison, Entergy,
Steinway & Sons, and The Coca-Cola Company.
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