Results for "Libra"

Moon on the Lake

By Sakoto Fujii

Label: Libra
Released: 2021
Track listing: Hansho; Wait for the Moon to Rise; Aspiration; Keep Running; Moon on the Lake.

Piano Music

Label: Libra
Released: 2021
Track listing: Shiroku; Fuwarito.

Satoko Fujii: Piano Music

by Karl Ackermann
October 4, 2021

The solo piano works of Satoko Fujii often summon an ethereal ensemble of sounds. Prepared, or in its natural state, her piano speaks as a proxy for the always searching composer/improviser. Fujii's recordings are an ongoing stream of themes based on the here and now for an artist who does not fit neatly into any category. ...

Recent Piano Music

by Jerome Wilson
August 29, 2021

Small groups featuring piano continue to work their individual brands of magic throughout the jazz world. Here are some examples from the last few months. Ray Gallon Make Your Move Cellar Live 2021 Pianist Ray Gallon has been around for over thirty-five years playing with the likes of ...

Hansho

June 13, 2021

Album: Moon on the Lake
By Sakoto Fujii
Label: Libra
Released: 2021
Duration: 9:36

Sakoto Fujii: Moon on the Lake

by Mike Jurkovic
May 11, 2021

Vanguard pianist/thinker Sakoto Fujii must work long hours to create so much music with so much attention to detail. The minutiae can be heroic swaths of vivid color or rumbling infidelities. Stumbling blocks or apex. You just never know. You can start right here at Moon On the Lake and get the whole thrilling story.

Solo Pianists from Japan

by Jerome Wilson
April 21, 2021

These are two recent solo piano releases from Japanese players. One is the latest dispatch from a prolific musician. The other is a farewell statement from a deceased artist. Satoko Fujii Hazuki Libra 2021 Satoko Fujii has been amazingly prolific in the last few years, releasing a ...

Satoko Fujii's Orchestras

by Jerome Wilson
February 21, 2019

Among pianist and composer Satoko Fujii's many and varied ensembles are the orchestras she leads in various cities. These two releases contrast Fujii's approach to orchestral music with the results of another composer writing for one of her orchestras. Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo Kikoeru Libra 2018 Kikoeru ...

Beguine Nummer Eins

March 7, 2017

Album: Peace
By Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo
Label: Libra
Released: 2016
Duration: 6:08

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Peace

by Karl Ackermann
January 18, 2017

The profusion of settings in which multi-instrumentalist/composer Satoko Fujii works is something of a phenomenon. The extent to which she brings something unique to each of those situations is even more astounding. In her husband Natsuki Tamura's Gato Libre quartet, Fujii typically plays the accordion to interpret the trumpeter's more lyrical and folkloric compositions. The pair ...