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Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick

Read "Burning Wick" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 24, 2025

Few pianists alive match the relentless invention of Satoko Fujii. Born in Tokyo in 1958, she trained classically before studying jazz at Berklee and the New England Conservatory under mentors such as Paul Bley and Ran Blake. Since the 1990s she has released more than 100 albums, often marking her birthday with a new project that ...

Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Dan McClenaghan
December 3, 2025

The albums on this Best of the Year list were picked on the run, as the months unfolded. Sometimes, second-guessing comes into play at the time of compilation. Not this time. All of these recordings are worthy of being called the Best of 2025. Andrew HillA Beautiful Day, Revisited Palmetto ...

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Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick

Read "Burning Wick" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 24, 2025

Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii is prolific. She has released well over 100 albums in a 30-year career, including a notable stretch in 2018 when she released an album a month. Solo piano outings, duo sets--including several with her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura--trios, quartets, and larger ensembles of every size and shape. A general rule with Fujii: ...

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Keiji Haino, Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There?

Read "What Happened There?" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
November 19, 2025

Singolare e creativo chitarrista dalla lunga carriera con esperienze nel rock e nella musica sperimentale, il giapponese Keiji Haino, classe 1952, è qui ripreso durante un concerto dal vivo presso il Shinjuku Pit Inn di Tokyo, in duo con il connazionale trombettista Natsuki Tamura, compagno artistico e di vita di Satoko Fujii: trentacinque minuti di performance ...

Song of the Day

Inspiration 2

September 26, 2025

Album: Shishiodoshi
By Kaze
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 16:26

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Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii: Ki

by Dan McClenaghan
September 5, 2025

The sound of Ki is deeply steeped in deliberation, dignity and old-world stateliness. This, coming from the long-term team of trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii, might surprise those who have followed the duo's trajectory over its quarter-century-plus existence. Fujii and Tamura stir up musical pots and pans in a startling array of styles. Most ...

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Kaze & Koichi Makigami: Shishiodoshi

Read "Shishiodoshi" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
August 12, 2025

Avanguardia piuttosto spinta, attraversata da un marcato gusto per l'antigrazioso di boccioniana memoria, specie in Natsuki Tamura, da sempre braccio armato del quartetto Kaze, da lui codiretto ormai da quasi un quindicennio con la moglie Satoko Fujii, e nell'ospite del succitato quartetto, Koichi Makigami (anche allo scacciapensieri, non accreditato), soprattutto allorché impegnato alla voce (a volte ...

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Satoko Fujii Quartet: Dog Days Of Summer

Read "Dog Days Of Summer" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
August 4, 2025

Satoko Fujii e il suo quartetto non hanno certo bisogno di presentazione. Presenza imprescindibile negli ultimi quarant'anni di musica creativa, ma si potrebbe dire di musica tout court, musicista dalla produzione discografica inesauribile--ha pubblicato come leader o co-leader più di cento dischi --la pianista, compositrice, band leader giapponese ripropone il format del quartetto che nel 2001, ...