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Satoko Fujii: Atody Man
by Neri Pollastri
Secondo album (dopo lo splendido Solo) dei dodici previsti quest'anno da Satoko Fujii per celebrare il sessantesimo compleanno (clicca qui per leggere la sua intervista), questo Atody Man vede la pianista alla testa del suo quartetto Kaze nel quale oltre la tromba del compagno Natsuki Tamura troviamo i francesi Chistian Pruvost, anch'egli alla tromba, e Peter Orins, alla batteria. La formazione è al suo quinto album, se si include anche June, del 2016, nel quale si allargava a ...
Continue ReadingSatoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin: Ninety-Nine Years
by Karl Ackermann
Three months and three releases into the Satoko Fujii's sixtieth birthday project, the eclectic composer keeps the mix from her musical arsenal, a varied and intriguing monthly adventure. Ninety-Nine Years follows her 2018 Libra releases Solo and Kaze's Atody Man and here Fujii calls out her larger company of Orchestra Berlin. Of her five distinct orchestras, Berlin is the most recently formed having debuted on Libra in 2015 with Ichigo Ichie. The ensemble from the maiden release remains intact with ...
Continue ReadingSatoko Fujii: the Gift of Music
by Angelo Leonardi
One of the most original and prolific voices in jazz today, Satoko Fujii is celebrating 2018, the year of her 60th birthday (which will fall on October 9th), by intensifying her already intense recording schedule. The Japanese pianist and composer will be releasing one CD a month featuring new works for some of her current groups, launching special projects and introducing new bands. All About jazz: Let's talk about your plan of releasing one CD a month until ...
Continue ReadingKaze: Atody Man
by Jerome Wilson
The second offering in Satoko Fujii's 60th birthday CD-a-month marathon is by her long time quartet, Kaze. The group's instrumentation of two trumpets, piano and drums would lead you to think it's heavily experimental and abstract, but while those elements are present, there is, on Atody Man, always a sense of order to this music with even the thorniest passages always resolving into logical ends. One piece, “Morning Glow," is one of Fujii's prettier compositions. It starts with ...
Continue ReadingSatoko Fujii: Solo
by Neri Pollastri
Il 2017 è stato per la pianista giapponese Satoko Fujii un anno di grazia, che l'ha vista pubblicare un impressionante numero di lavori di altissimo livello nelle più diverse formazioni -come Aspiration, in quartetto con Wadada Leo Smith, Natsuki Tamura e Ikue Mori, Trouble Kaze in sestetto, Peace con l'orchestra di Tokio e Invisible Hand in solo (clicca qui per le recensioni di questi tre album), spesso avventurandosi sui rischiosi territori dell'improvvisazione più estrema. Ma il 2018 si annuncia per ...
Continue ReadingSatoko Fujii: un anno di celebrazioni
by Angelo Leonardi
La pianista e bandleader giapponese Satoko Fujii è una delle protagoniste della musica improvvisata internazionale: in veste di leader o co-leader ha pubblicato più di 80 album spaziando da lavori in solo, piccoli organici e sontuosi progetti orchestrali. In questi evidenzia una personale e avvincente sintesi tra avanguardia post-free, sperimentazione accademica ed aspetti della tradizione culturale giapponese. Per celebrare il sessantesimo compleanno (che avverrà esattamente il prossimo 9 ottobre) Satoko Fujii ha pensato di pubblicare un nuovo disco ...
Continue ReadingKaze: Atody Man
by Karl Ackermann
Atody Man is the fifth album from the quartet Kaze. Beginning with Rafale (Circum-Libra, 2011), the group--initiated by French drummer Peter Orins--has been one of many showcases for the eclectic music of pianist Satoko Fujii and her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura. The unusual formation includes a second trumpeter, Christian Pruvost, also from France. Atody Man also marks the second entry in Fujii's sixtieth birthday project, with a planned monthly-release throughout the year. The “Atody" part of the album title comes ...
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