Jazz Articles about Oscar Noriega

About Oscar Noriega

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Fukushima

Read "Fukushima" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
December 1, 2017

Satoko Fujii's Orchestra New York has been together since their 1997 debut South Wind (Leo Lab/Libra). A “super group" by any standards, it has remained largely intact over the course of twenty years, bringing the ensemble to its latest release, Fukushima, a memorial suite. The Fukushima nuclear accident was caused by a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami and was the worst such incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Fujii was in Tokyo at the time, in 2011. There were ...

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Fukushima

Read "Fukushima" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 22, 2017

In 2011 an earthquake set into motion the events that would create a partial meltdown of fuel rods in the reactors in the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Radiation was released. The effects are still felt, and will be for decades (at least)--an especially troubling situation for the only country to have experienced the initially catastrophic and ultimately corrosive and malignant aftermath of a nuclear attack. Satoko Fujii, the Japanese pianist/composer/band leader, has something to say about ...

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Eto

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 16, 2012

Sessanta come gli anni del marito trombettista Natsuki Tamura. Sessanta come numero magico dello zodiaco cinese, in Giappone chiamato Eto, dove si incontrano (12x5=60 e 10x6=60) sistema numerico duodecimale e sistema decimale. Zodiaco cinese che contiene in ogni ciclo dodici anni e, a ciascun anno, fa corrispondere un animale. Qualche numero, dunque, per spiegare la genesi e la filosofia ispiratrice di quest'ultimo lavoro di Satoko Fujii che per l'occasione assembla una formazione, attiva dal 1997, con il meglio della scena ...

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Oscar Noriega: Luciano's Dream

Read "Luciano's Dream" reviewed by David Adler

by David Adler
April 1, 2001

The full name of this ensemble is Oscar Noriega’s Play Party, and some of the music on Luciano’s Dream is indeed playful, with an edgy, avant-garde sensibility. But the album’s title track is certainly no laughing matter, as it is dedicated to a person who would have become Noriega’s brother-in-law had he not committed suicide at the age of 28. Together with trumpeter Cuong Vu, guitarist Brad Shepik, and drummer Tom Rainey, Noriega (on alto sax and bass clarinet) formulates ...