Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 650 (Q18603)

So ... after we became very good friends, Lew Tabackin and I had our twenty-fifth anniversary, and I figured, "Well, we wont have a fiftieth anniversary, so maybe well have a big party. " So we had a party at the Essex House, and invited a few people, and so on, and of course, John Lewis and his wife. And on occasions like that, people make a speech, you know. And so John Lewis stood up and he ...