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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Toshiko Akiyoshi New Mexico Jazz Festival 2010 © Paul Slaughter

The New Mexico Jazz Festival 2010 featured the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet wth the superb reed man, Lew Tabackin. Her quartet also featured Boris Koslov on base and Mark Taylor on drums. Toshiko, now 80, also conducted a 15 piece band with much fervor and vitality.

Joys of Jazz

"I began to listen to jazz at age 15, in the fifties, introduced to the sounds by my Uncle Charlie Mastropaolo, an accomplished drummer. As I grew older I found the sounds of jazz were not only joyful but had a healing effect. In the late sixties I had a gig as a disc jockey on KBCA-FM in Los Angeles, an all-night jazz station. I programmed my own shows and did interviews with the greats of jazz. At the beginning of my photographic career I was fortunate to photograph the up and coming jazz musicians, as well as those established icons of the jazz world like Dizzy, Duke, and Miles. I find jazz and photography are both powerful and visceral forces in furthering unity and understanding."

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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