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Illusion

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: Study 34; Delusion; Count Yourself; Subtle Bitterness; Shaolinish; Contemporary; Castalia; Hypatia; Study 34-2; Gravity (improvisation).

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Francesca Han: Illusion

Read "Illusion" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Pianist Francesca Han's music contains a certain duality. She's a classical and improvising jazz pianist with one foot in the jazz tradition and the other wedged firmly in the door of contemporary jazz. An established jazz musician in South Korea, Han acquired new vocabulary studying and playing in New York, where she also collaborated with composer ...

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Undulation

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Metal; Water; Wood; The Moon; The Sun; Undulation; Fire; The Earth.

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Undulation

Read "Undulation" reviewed by Jim Santella


Satoko Fujii's New York big band carries a big stick, blowing away any and all obstacles as the musicians interpret this program of her soul-stirring compositions. Everyone solos on this creative journey into the avant-garde, and Fujii's cohesive orchestra provides a stable foundation. Undulation, the band's sixth album, is tight. These players have been together long ...

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra NY: Undulation

Read "Undulation" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Turbulence is a defining characteristic of Satoko Fujii's big band projects, where sections of collaborative sonic turmoil roar into moments of no-holds-barred soloing, with the segments of quirky tranquility sneaking in the back door.Undulation, one of four simultaneously released Fujii big band efforts by the ever-prolific pianist/composer/bandleader, features her longest-standing large ensemble, the Satoko ...

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Live in Japan 2004

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ninepin; Illusion Suite; Looking out of the Window; An Insane Scheme.

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Blueprint

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Blueprint, Ochai, Anemometer, Nagoyanian, Kioku, Untitled

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Satoko Fujii Four: Live in Japan 2004

Read "Live in Japan 2004" reviewed by Jim Santella


When pianist Satoko Fujii, along with her New York trio and her husband, performed this concert in Saitama, Japan on July 28, 2004, their cohesiveness brought a satisfying sensation before the audience. They built each piece with deliberation and stretched out with a free spirit. “Illusion Suite" was recorded by Fujii's trio and released ...

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Satoko Fujii Four: Live in Japan 2004

Read "Live in Japan 2004" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Satoko Fujii creates one of the most original sounds in jazz, in any setting, though the word “jazz" is too confining to describe what she does. The ever-prolific Japanese-born pianist has recorded with about fifteen different ensemble configurations--everything from solo and duo outings to quartets and big bands, and much in between. Live in Japan 2004 ...

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Satoko Fujii: Live in Japan 2004

Read "Live in Japan 2004" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii has been one of the most exciting arrangers, as well as a compelling composer and performer, in outside jazz in recent years. Unusually with the company she keeps, improvisation beyond soloing has never been a part of her work. But a recent record shows a new leaning toward improv, to varying results. ...


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