Toshiko Akiyoshi, 84, is best known today as the longtime leader of a big band. During the latter half of her career, that band had been co-led by Lew Tabackin, whom she married in 1969. She also formed several bands with her previous husband—alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano, whom she married in 1959 and divorced in 1967. Akiyoshi grew up in Japan after…
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