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Satoko Fujii Orchestra: Blueprint

Read "Blueprint" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
January 22, 2005

Ideas flow by the brimful for Satoko Fujii. If her spate of recordings is not enough evidence, then take a look at the bands she heads. There's the Orchestra East and the Orchestra West (divided between Japan and the USA), the trio with Jim Black and Mark Dresser, her Quartet, and her solo work. You get ...

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Satoko Fujii Orchestra: Blueprint

Read "Blueprint" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 15, 2005

Japanese-born pianist Satoko Fujii's Blueprint, featuring her New York Orchestra, opens with the title cut, a hard-driving, dark-toned, stop-time tune full of gathering momentum and menace, giving the impression of a world plummeting in the direction of chaos--though it never quite goes there. It's the same feeling one gets in listening to Dumas' “The Sorcerer's Apprentice," ...

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Zephyros

By Satoko Fujii

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Future of the Past; As Usual; Flying to the South; First Tango; One Summer Day; Clear Sky—for Christopher; 15 Minutes to Get to the Station.

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Ko Ko Ko Ke

By Natsuki Tamura

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Mekinaka; Peng; Nettara Mottara; Tahi Tahi; Shamisen; Kogena Agena; Ko Ko Ko Ke; Honamesa; Pasurija; Taiko; Guta; Epura; Syste; Samidare.

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Illusion Suite

By Satoko Fujii

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Illusion Suite, An Irregular Course, Flying to the South, An Insane Scheme

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Sketches

By Satoko Fujii

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Seventh Moon, Frozen Fire, Watershed, Tree Rings, Tin Can Cat, Clay Pot, Your Deepening Shadow, Dazzling Sunlight, Looking Back, Looking Everywhere, Look Up

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Exit

By Natsuki Tamura

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Entrance, Endanger, Eliminate, Expired, Exit

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Satoko Fujii Trio: Illusion Suite

Read "Illusion Suite" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
November 3, 2004

Jazz's modern mainstream continues to grow with the help of creative artists such as those featured on this lively session. Pianist Satoko Fujii leads with a powerful force that captivates. Accessible for traditional bebop as well as avant-garde listeners, her music stirs the imagination. Scenes of various emotional themes cast a long shadow over the trio's ...

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Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Exit

by Jim Santella
November 2, 2004

With his new electric quartet, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura explores a wider range of possibilities in the name of free jazz. Synthesized electronic moods and spiritual trumpet echoes recall the hubbub over the way Miles Davis ushered in the 1970s with fusion. Now, in a new century of improvised music, Tamura turns loose the ties ...

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Satoko Fujii Trio: Illusion Suite

Read "Illusion Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 11, 2004

Nobody does the piano trio thing like Satoko Fujii. Almost every other effort out there in this category can be related to Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner... to name just a few. With Fujii, the sound is a category of its own. Free, to be sure, with classical tinges, an the occasional influence ...