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Article: Album Review

This Is It!: Mosaic

by John Sharpe
January 12, 2022

Fittingly for an artist as relentlessly exploratory as pianist Satoko Fujii, on Mosaic she pushes at the boundaries of recording technology, as well as the music, and comes up trumps. For the second release from the trio This Is It! lack of physical proximity proved no obstacle. Confined to base during the pandemic, Fujii and husband ...

Article: Album Review

Fred Hersch: Breath By Breath

Read "Breath By Breath" reviewed by John Chacona

by John Chacona
January 7, 2022

Why is Fred Hersch not sufficiently mentioned among the great jazz pianists? It could be a generational thing. At 66, Hersch is an eminent tweener, too old to qualify as the Hot New Thing and too young to be an Elder Statesman. He's in good company there with fellow sexagenarians Myra Melford, Satoko Fujii, Uri Caine, ...

Album

Beyond

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Molecular; Proliferation; Todokanai Tegami; Beyond; On the Road; Mizube; Ame No Ato; Mobius Loop; Spectrum.

Album

Keshin

By Natsuki Tamura

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Busy Day; Donten; Dreamer; Three Scenes; Keshin; Drop; Sparrow Dance.

Album

Underground

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Underground; Break In The Clouds; Meeresspiegel; Air; Frost Stirring; Memory Illusion; Finite Or Infinite; Asayake; Streeet Tromp; One Note Techno Punks.

Album

Hazuki

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Invisible; Quarantine; Clusters; Hoffen; Beginning; Ernesto; Expanding; Twenty-Four Degrees.

Album

Piano Music

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra
Released: 2021
Track listing: Shiroku; Fuwarito.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

GulfH of Berlin, Adam O’Farrill & Eunhye Jeong

by Maurice Hogue
December 29, 2021

Sampled this episode are new releases featuring saxophonists (Rich Halley, Daniel Carter, Irek Wojtczak, Yuma Uesaka (with Marilyn Crispell) and Gebhard Ullmann (GulfH of Berlin), trumpeters Adam O'Farrill and Joaquin Muro, and pianists Eunhye Jeong from South Korea and Satoko Fujii. Toss in some great stuff from William Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, and L.A.'s The Gathering ...

Article: Year in Review

Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music of 2021

by Karl Ackermann
December 14, 2021

2020 was a disaster and 2021 was less than a beacon of hope. COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror but closer than it appears. The political clown cars are over capacity, still running on fossil fuel and spilling occupants into the drinking water. That said, jazz and creative music flourished in ways that could make us ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Satoko Fujii: Aural Abstracts

by Doug Collette
December 10, 2021

Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii had already released one of the year's most notable albums Piano Music (Libra Records, 2021) by the time Underground and Mosaic came out. And yet these two titles, conceived and executed in markedly different ways, reaffirm the woman's ingenuity as much as her prolific nature (along with close to another handful of records ...