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Kaze: Rafaele

by Dave Wayne
December 13, 2011

Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii are as furiously creative as they are prolific. These days, they release new music in batches of three or four CDs, each with different personnel, though often with some compositional overlap--completely forgivable, since the same material sounds completely different (often rewardingly so) in the hands of a different ensemble. ...

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Satoko Fujii: Rafale

Read "Rafale" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
August 10, 2011

It's no easy task keeping track of the bands under the baton of pianist Satoko Fujii. The prolific avant-garde artist from Japan leads numerous ensembles, including four distinct big bands and multiple quartets and trios, in addition to co-leading duo outings with her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, very notably on the marvelous Chun (Libra, 2008). She ...

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: ETO

by Troy Collins
July 26, 2011

In addition to an ever-changing array of small combos, tireless Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii continues to lead four international big bands, each based in a different city (Kobe, Nagoya, New York and Tokyo). Of the four, her New York based Orchestra is both her oldest and most prolific, having maintained virtually the same line-up since 1997. ...

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Zakopane

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Negotiation Steps; Desert Ship; Zee; Sakura; Tropical Fish; Zakopane; Trout; Inori.

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Cut the Rope

By Natsuki Tamura

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Cut the Rope; Headwaters; Flashback; Kaleidoscopic; Sublimation.

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Shiro

By Gato Libre

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Dune and Star; Waterside; Scorpion; Falling Star; Going Back Home; Mountain, River, Sky; Memory of Journey; Shiro.

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Shiro

By Natsuki Tamura

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Dune and Star; Waterside; Scorpion; Falling Star; Going Back Home; Mountain, River, Sky; Memory of Journey; Shiro.

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Zakopane

Read "Zakopane" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 29, 2010

There are several outstanding qualities that emerge in pianist Satoko Fujii's big band writing. She has an extraordinarily sense of color that plays upon the moist exquisiteness of muted shades, as well as recognizing and utilizing the vivid ends of her palette of colors. She also combines ingenious use of the timbre of various elements of ...

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Gato Libre: Shiro

Read "Shiro" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 28, 2010

The elemental sadness of Natsuki Tamura's trumpet, as it ascends the temperate scale he has created in “Dune and Star," defines the desolate beauty of Shiro, the fourth album from duo-turned-quartet, Gato Libre. Tamura also evokes the soft colors and textures of dawn, dusk, and the time in between, as if it has been caught in ...

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First Meeting: Cut the Rope

Read "Cut the Rope" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 27, 2010

Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura creates a vast expanse of sound on Cut the Rope, the first album recorded with his band First Meeting. Nothing is predictable on this wholly improvised album that ranges from aspects of a vision of being marooned on a desolate soundscape to the musicians ultimately finding their way into a melodic river of ...