Jazz Articles about Natsuki Tamura

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Satoko Fujii: Fujin Raijin

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 29, 2007

La pianista e compositrice Satoko Fujii ha più volte trovato ispirazione nel folklore del suo Paese ma la scelta non è mai stata così profonda e coerente come in questo disco, registrato il 25 maggio 2006 a New York. Al suo nuovo quartetto ha dato il nome di Min-Yoh Ensemble, riferendosi a quella forma di musica tradizionale giapponese nata come canto di lavoro contadino ed evolutasi nella prima parte del Novecento in forma anche strumentale. La sua identità artistica è ...

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Natsuki Tamura: In Krakow in November, Nomad & Crossword Puzzle

by Kurt Gottschalk
September 8, 2007

Satoko Fujii/Natsuki Tamura In Krakow in November Not Two 2007 Gato Libre Nomad No Man's Land 2007 Double Duo Crossword Puzzle Libra 2007

Incessant touring schedules and a recorded output that rivals label contracts of the '60s can make the almost incessantly productive ...

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Natsuki Tamura Quartet: In The Tank

by Dan McClenaghan
June 18, 2005

In a drifting and amorphous way, the sound on In The Tank feels as elemental as a delta blues; the opener, “Walking Squid," comes to life on a spare, tinny plucking of strings, like something you'd hear from Son House or Robert Johnson. Whether the plucking comes from a guitar or from Satoko Fujii reaching inside her piano to finger the strings (she's been known to employ the technique) matters not. The quartet consists of Natsuki Tamura on trumpet, Elliot ...

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Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Exit

by Jim Santella
November 2, 2004

With his new electric quartet, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura explores a wider range of possibilities in the name of free jazz. Synthesized electronic moods and spiritual trumpet echoes recall the hubbub over the way Miles Davis ushered in the 1970s with fusion.

Now, in a new century of improvised music, Tamura turns loose the ties that hold jazz to specific timbres. With her synthesizers, Satoko Fujii is able to create a new kind of fusion. While electric guitar and ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...