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Natsuki Tamura
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Japanese trumpeter and composer NATSUKI TAMURA is internationally recognized for a unique musical vocabulary that blends extended techniques with jazz lyricism. This unpredictable virtuoso’s seemingly limitless creativity led François Couture in All Music Guide to declare that “… we can officially say there are two Natsuki Tamuras: The one playing angular jazz-rock or ferocious free improv… and the one writing simple melodies of stunning beauty… How the two of them live in the same body and breathe through the same trumpet might remain a mystery.”
Born on July 26, 1951, in Otsu, Shiga, Japan, Tamura first picked up the trumpet while performing in his junior high brass band
Natsuki Tamura Quartet: In The Tank
by Dan McClenaghan
In a drifting and amorphous way, the sound on In The Tank feels as elemental as a delta blues; the opener, “Walking Squid," comes to life on a spare, tinny plucking of strings, like something you'd hear from Son House or Robert Johnson. Whether the plucking comes from a guitar or from Satoko Fujii reaching inside ...
Exit
Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Entrance, Endanger, Eliminate, Expired, Exit
Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Exit
by Jim Santella
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 ...
Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Exit
by Dan McClenaghan
Making music with a commercial appeal has probably never entered trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's mind. He follows his muse, and she takes him to uncharted territories.Last year's Hada Hada may be the most intense set of jazz sounds--Electric, with that capital “E"--you'll likely enounter, a plugged-in fifty thousand watt hurricane of a CD; while this ...
Hada Hada
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Released: 2003
Track listing: Hada Hada; Incident; Kagero; Mizore; Explorer; Satero; Utage; Jyonk.
Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Hada Hada
by Mark Corroto
Listening to the new release by Japanese trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's Quartet reminds me of the line Roy Scheider delivered in the movie Jaws when he gets his first glimpse at the great white shark he is pursuing. In a deadpan look of shock, he utters, “we have to get a bigger boat.” Perhaps ...
