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Minerva

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2003
Track listing: Tatsu Take; Warp; Selvedge; Weft; Caught in a Web.

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With its second album, the Satoko Fujii Quartet takes off. Minerva – the Roman goddess of wisdom, invention, the arts, and martial prowess – must surely be looking down from her high abode these days and smiling. Perhaps Lester Bowie and Don Pullen are sitting alongside her. After all, they share Minerva’s respect for invention and ...

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Satoko Fujii Quartet: Minerva

Read "Minerva" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 16, 2003

Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii--who as much as anybody out there defies the category trap--has recorded in a variety of settings: solo, duo, trio, big band. On 2001's Vulcan, with a quartet, she created arguably her most entrancing sound to date as she teamed with trumpeter (and her husband) Natuki Tamura, bassist Takeharu Hayakawa and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida ...