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Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo

Art of the Arranger

by David Brown
April 19, 2022

This week, we continue exploring the art of the arranger with large ensembles and jazz orchestras. Charles Mingus sets Meditations on Integration on a big band, The Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band presents a tone poem with traditional Japanese vocalists, we look at the Fletcher Henderson influence on Sun Ra, plus works by Satoko Fujii Orchestra ...

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Kikoeru - Tribute to Masaya Kimura

by Karl Ackermann
December 18, 2018

Satoko Fujii closes out the celebration of her sixtieth birthday with her final monthly album of 2018, Kikoeru: Tribute to Masaya Kimura. This album is more than a celebration of one life; it's a cathartic, full-circle tribute to lives that have touched the composer and been integral to her music. This sixth recording from Fujii's Orchestra ...

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 ...

Peace

By Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo

Label: Libra
Released: 2016
Track listing: 2014; Jasper; Peace; Beguine Nummer Eins.

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Peace

by Budd Kopman
December 18, 2016

If pianist Satoko Fujii is known for anything, it is for the enormous amount of energy that she brings to her work, plus the pace she maintains with groups scattered all over the world. Her latest offering, Peace, with her Tokyo Orchestra was recorded in 2014, as was Ichigo Ichie (her Berlin Orchestra), Uminari ...

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Peace

by Dan McClenaghan
December 18, 2016

The rumor rolled out in mid-2016 that Japanese pianist/composer/bandleader Satoko Fujii had another orchestral album on the way. Peace was the title. “Peace" isn't a word that normally comes to mind when considering Fujii's music. “Bedlam," maybe, but not “peace." In preparation for the oncoming Peace, three previous Fujii orchestral CDs on Libra Records ...

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Zakopane

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 29, 2010

There are several outstanding qualities that emerge in pianist Satoko Fujii's big band writing. She has an extraordinarily sense of color that plays upon the moist exquisiteness of muted shades, as well as recognizing and utilizing the vivid ends of her palette of colors. She also combines ingenious use of the timbre of various elements of ...

Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Live!!

by Jim Santella
October 21, 2006

This 2005 concert at Tokyo's Pit Inn (on CD and DVD) brings seven of Satoko Fujii's extended compositions into the open in living color and with open ears. She features two soloists on each piece and builds the music around them. All eyes are on the leader as she conducts them through a program that ranges ...