Toshiko Akiyoki-Lew Tabackin Quartet

The audience got a great dose of lively straight ahead jazz Sunday night on the Nightclub stage with the Toshiko Akiyoki-Lew Tabackin Quartet.

Lew Tabackin, Peter Washington and Toshiko Akiyoshi of the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Quartet. Photo by Mike Rainey.

Akiyoshi’s ferocious piano playing was well-complimented by Tabackin’s energetic sax work.

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