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Lew Tabackin: Tanuki's Night Out

Read "Tanuki's Night Out" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden
July 17, 2006

Lew Tabackin is in terrific form throughout this November 2001 trio concert from Studio F in Kasahara in the Gifu Prefecture of Japan, a recurring fall concert for the saxophonist/flutist since 1996. Joined by bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Mark Taylor, Tabackin begins on flute with a decidedly Far Eastern approach to John Coltrane's “Wise One. Tabackin's loping “Desert Lady has more of a Middle Eastern sound, suggesting a lonely walk and his haunting, unaccompanied two-minute cadenza ...

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Satoko Fujii: Bell the Cat

Read "Bell the Cat" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 3, 2002

A tough review, this new CD, Bell the Cat! by Satoko Fujii. Her art is an indescribable entity. Avant-Garde, adventurous, daring, startling, “out there." All of those and more. Pianist/composer Fujii began her musical journey in Japan, studying classical music. But she soon found that world too dulling and stuffy for her temperment. Improvisation and freedom, it seems, were in her blood, and her own music mixed itself into an amalgam of jazz, classical, traditional Japanese folk, with ...