Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 606 (Q18559)

I needed about $3000 those days to--isnt that something? So cheap, you cant think of it today--the Town Hall concert. And that was a self-produced concert. Then it took me a year to prepare. And ... then, uh, that time the mayor was (John) Lindsay, that was the mayor. And for some reason, he named that particular day October 7, 1967) as the "Jazz Day" of New York. Now, that's my luck! My God! ...