Aki Takase is a Japanese jazz pianist, conductor and writer who began her career
after graduating from the prestigious Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo in
the late 1970s. She recorded her first LP 'Aki' on the King label in the USA.
The early 1980s saw her move to Europe to record and tour with a great deal of
work with the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.
The 1990s saw Takase collaborating extensively with Portuguese jazz vocalist
Maria Joao. She continued to experiment and record, extending her range from
pure jazz to include traditional Japanese instrumentation, even...