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Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a american film of genre Documentary

Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi (1983)

Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi
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Length 58minutes
OriginUSA
Genres Documentary,    Musical

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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