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Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: ETO
by Troy Collins
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. ...
Zakopane
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Negotiation Steps; Desert Ship; Zee; Sakura; Tropical Fish; Zakopane; Trout; Inori.
Cut the Rope
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Cut the Rope; Headwaters; Flashback; Kaleidoscopic; Sublimation.
Shiro
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Dune and Star; Waterside; Scorpion; Falling Star; Going Back Home; Mountain, River, Sky; Memory of Journey; Shiro.
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.
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Zakopane
by Raul d'Gama Rose
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 ...
Gato Libre: Shiro
by Raul d'Gama Rose
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 ...
First Meeting: Cut the Rope
by Raul d'Gama Rose
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 ...
Gato Libre: Shiro
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il Gato Libre del trombettista Natsuki Tamura giunge al quarto capitolo confermando i caratteri di un'estetica transculturale che s'ispira alle musiche popolari europee per creare una sintesi dalle tinte radiose, giocata principalmente sulle suggestioni timbriche e la cantabilità melodica. Il primo nucleo del progetto era un duo costituito da Tamura e dal bassista Norikatsu Koreyasu. Dopo ...
Gato Libre: Shiro
by Dan McClenaghan
Japanese trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's name is most often mentioned in the press for his work with his wife, Satoko Fujii. The Japanese pianist casts a blinding light with her prolific output, and a fearless and unfettered musical vision. Tamura sits in as either a sideman or collaborator on many, if not most, of her CDs.
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