Jazz Articles about Natsuki Tamura

Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Exit

by Dan McClenaghan
September 9, 2004

Making music with a commercial appeal has probably never entered trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's mind. He follows his muse, and she takes him to uncharted territories.Last year's Hada Hada may be the most intense set of jazz sounds--Electric, with that capital “E"--you'll likely enounter, a plugged-in fifty thousand watt hurricane of a CD; while this year's Ko Ko Ko Ke , a solo set, just trumpet and voice, soothed the listener with a calm accoustic chants and incantations. Opposite ...

Natuski Tamura: Ko Ko Ko Ke

by Dan McClenaghan
May 12, 2004

You'll never fit trumpeter Natsuki Tamura into any pre-fab category. He creates his own, then pulls you into them with him.Last year's Hada Hada (NatSat'03), featuring a plugged-in Tamura alongside his wife, Satoko Fujii, on synthesizers, howled with electro-nuclear energy, a disc that probably should have been sold with those lead aprons that dentists drape over you to protect the vital parts from x-rays. Ko Ko Ko Ke , on the other hand, takes an hundred and eighty ...

Natsuki Tamura: Ko Ko Ko Ke

by Jim Santella
May 3, 2004

Free improvisation. It means spontaneous art: whatever comes to mind, without preconceived restrictions. The performance must, therefore, take on a natural feeling and flow from deep within.

Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura chants with a purpose. Sometimes mournful, sometimes as natural as wildlife in a meadow, he lets his feelings take over. His solo trumpet passages wander about and leave spaces in between. Vocal chant and trumpet phrases complement one another and serve to punctuate the performance. Hence, his ...

Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Hada Hada

by Mark Corroto
May 3, 2003

Listening to the new release by Japanese trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's Quartet reminds me of the line Roy Scheider delivered in the movie Jaws when he gets his first glimpse at the great white shark he is pursuing. In a deadpan look of shock, he utters, “we have to get a bigger boat.”

Perhaps a larger concert hall or noise attenuates are the order of the day. Tamura, a talented trumpeter has produced several noteworthy solo projects (check ...