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Satoko Fujii: Mosaic
by Dan McClenaghan
Another Covid-19 pandemic year, 2021, seems to have brought about a revival of Japanese pianist Satoko Fuji's duo work, with her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura on Keishin, and with vibraphonist Taiko Saito--a pairing dubbed “Futari"--on Underground and Beyond. All three discs are on Libra Records. As the year winds down, she teams once again with Tamura, ...
Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Recordings of 2021
by Dan McClenaghan
The top jazz recordings of 2021, in the order in which they were encountered... Aki Takase / Christian Weber / Michael Griener Auge Intakt Records The ever mercurial Japanese-born, Berlin-based pianist Aki Takase presents her take on the piano trio. Teaming with bassist Christian Weber and drummer Michael Griener, she ...
John Coltrane & New Clean Feed Releases
by Maurice Hogue
"Acknowledgment" from the new John ColtraneA Love Supreme Live In Seattle highlights this episode of OMJ along with a taste of some excellent new releases from Portugal's Clean Feed Records--Friends & Neighbors, Joao Lencastre & Communion, The Rite Of Trio, and Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble. Also in the Clean Feed batch but played in earlier shows ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Entity
by Neri Pollastri
Undicesimo album per l'Orchestra New York di Satoko Fujii, qui composta di tredici elementi, dei quali ben nove già presenti nel primo lavoro, South Wind, risalente al lontano 1997. Il disco è registrato nel maggio del 2019 ed è uscito già lo scorso anno, ma merita egualmente grande attenzione, in quanto si tratta di un lavoro ...
Underground
Album: Underground
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 4:55
Habana's Dream
Album: Mosaic
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 9:21
Paula Shocron, Nendo Dango & Steven Bernstein
by Maurice Hogue
Following up on music by Argentinean pianist, Paula Shocron, led me to Nendo Dango Records, the Buenos Aires label run by Shocron and her partner, drummer Pablo Diaz. This episode features very forward-thinking music from several Nendo Dango releases. There's also more piano from a new recording by Australian Alister Spence and Japan's Satoko Fujii. Their ...
Ikue Mori, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura: Prickly Pear Cactus
by Neri Pollastri
Questo disco è un esempio dei molti lavori prodotti nel periodo della pandemia, pensati e realizzati a distanza, registrando le parti ciascuno nella propria casa e poi “montandole" con l'uso di software e computer. I tre protagonisti erano appena rientrati in Giappone da un tour statunitense e da una registrazione a New York con ...
Charu Suri: The Book of Ragas Volume II
by Dan McClenaghan
New sounds in jazz often come from countries other than America, where the music was born. Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto introduced the lilting rhythms of Brazil; the prolific pianist/bandleader Satoko Fujii brings an avant-Japanese frame of mind to the music, and .numerous Scandinavian artists--Jan Garbarek, Trygve Seim, Tord Gustavsen and the Marcin Wasilewski Trio--have ...
Satoko Fujii: Piano Music
by Karl Ackermann
The solo piano works of Satoko Fujii often summon an ethereal ensemble of sounds. Prepared, or in its natural state, her piano speaks as a proxy for the always searching composer/improviser. Fujii's recordings are an ongoing stream of themes based on the here and now for an artist who does not fit neatly into any category. ...
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