Jazz Articles about Hana Fujisaki

About Hana Fujisaki

Album Review

Entre Amigos: Joyful Foundation

Read "Joyful Foundation" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 15, 2026

Joyful Foundation is a near-perfect name for the third album by Entre Amigos, wherein the Chicago-based quartet welcomes aboard one of the jazz world's rising stars, trumpeter Justin Copeland, to play--naturally--The Music of Justin Copeland on an album whose upbeat posture and sunny disposition help make it utterly charming and highly listenable. There is, of course, much more here than cheerfulness alone to digest and appreciate. For one thing, Copeland's compositions--he wrote four of the album's eight numbers--are ...

Album Review

Juanjo López: Above, Beyond, Within

Read "Above, Beyond, Within" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
August 24, 2025

In our troubling national moment of intensified nativism and ethnic fearmongering, it can be edifying to encounter the stories of people whose lives are directly affected by the current climate. One of them is Juanjo López, a guitarist now well-established in the Chicago scene but who came years ago to the United States with his family from Mexico. His story, reflected in his second release, Above, Beyond, Within, is about much more than geographic relocation, however. There is a strong ...