Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 138 (Q18091)

I think it was (19)48, uh, it was summer. And, uh, I was a little bit, I was a little bit, kinda, trying to play, improvise and so on and so on, you know. When I went to .. Mister Yamada, he was an old man, I mean an old-timer. There were a few old timers, Japanese old times, who used to play on the boats. I think, one of the most important, probably the one was (trumpeter) Mister Fumio Nanri, ...