Jazz Is My Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi Trailer (1983)
"A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi"01 January 1983Factual, Music58 mins
Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a 1983 documentary film by Renee Cho about the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi.
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