Welcome to "Between the Cracks" (or "the ones who got away").  Even though Community Keyboards has chatted with many organ and keyboard world celebrities, many more have avoided the probing questions of your host!  With the kind permission of THE ESSEX ORGAN MUSEUM (http://www.essexorganmuseum.com/links-Interest.html) we present an A to Z of those who never made it, for whatever reason, to the programme.

The personality this time is Hitoshi 'Toshi' Asano  who was born in Ginza, Tokyo in 1947 as the son of a medical doctor. His grandfather was also a medical doctor of St. Luke's International Hospital, a familiar place for Toshi from his youth.  He was very impressed by the sound of the Hammond organ in the chapel of the hospital.  Toshi studied playing technique of the Hammond organ by himself and started his performance when he was a student of Keio University.  He has played in Japan and abroad on numerous occasions.

He plays "Begin the Beguine" on Hammond organ.