Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 156 (Q18109)

It was a quintet (chuckles). And, uh, I would sit next to him and I watched him play. I remember when I tried to play like that, I said, "Very soon, I will play like Matsui-san," and Matsui-san was the leader and so I got a job with this trombone player who had a band, in another department (store), called Isetan--its still there, though, in Shinjuku, up there. There was a ... this was for Ame ...