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The Jazz Session #47: Satoko Fujii
Jason Crane interviews pianist and composer Satoko Fujii. Fujii has released four new recordings in 2008, her 50th birthday year. These records find her with her New York trio; on accordion in the avant-folk-jazz group of her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura; in a quartet with some of Japan’s most talented improvising musicians; and in a second ...
Satoko Fujii: Four And More
by Jason Crane
For pianist Satoko Fujii, 50 is the new 20. That refers to her age, although you could almost believe it refers to the number of albums she's released in 2008 alone. Fujii appears on four records this year: a trio session called Trace A River (Libra, 2008); a quartet session with her band ma-do ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Bacchus
by Budd Kopman
The jazz of today is the most vibrant ever. It has shaken off the straitjacket of “jazz as style," replacing it with the concept of “jazz as an attitude or aesthetic." Paradoxically, the music produced by the players embracing this concept is called avant-garde; primarily because it cannot be immediately pigeonholed and is inherently challenging. In ...
Satoko Fujii ma-do at Dizzy's, San Diego
by Dan McClenaghan
Satoko Fujii ma-doDizzy's San Diego, California August 31, 2008 The Satoko Fujii ma-do quartet kicked off its North American tour in support of their CD Heatwave in the middle of the three-day Labor Day Holiday at Dizzy's in downtown San Diego.Pianist/composer Fujii leads numerous ensembles: crazy, freewheeling, ...
Satoko Fujii: Jazz, with a Little Japanese Rock for Good Measure
MONTREAL -- Consider Satoko Fujii something of a late bloomer. Even though she started playing piano at the age of 4, she didn't realize that improvisation was her calling until she was 20, and she didn't start recording as a jazz musician until 1996, when she was in her late 30s. Since then, however, the 49-year-old ...
Satoko Fujii Ma-Do: Heat Wave
by Troy Collins
Heat Wave is the fourth record released in 2008 featuring the prolific and talented Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii. In honor of her 50th birthday, she organized an intensive release schedule, issuing three albums so far on her Libra imprint, including Trace a River with her veteran trio featuring bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black, Cloudy ...
Satoko Fujii Trio: Trace A River
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist and composer Satoko Fujii returns with Mark Dresser (bass) and Jim Black (drums) on another exciting recording. Not only does Fujii go further in her explorations, she also shows a deeper sense of harmony, developed in tandem with her band. Her writing is varied and accentuates her skill as a composer. In the ...
Satoko Fujii: Trace a River, Cloudy Then Sunny & Kuro
by Kurt Gottschalk
Satoko Fujii Trace a River Libra 2008 Junkbox Cloudy then Sunny Libra 2008 Gato Libre Kuro Libra 2008 The ...
Satoko Fujii Trio: Trace a River
by Troy Collins
Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii celebrates her fiftieth birthday this year. A prolific and diverse artist, Fujii has one of the most impressive discographies in contemporary jazz. In honor of this milestone event she has concurrently released two very different trio albums on her label, the other being Cloudy Then Sunny, an experimental project from the collaborative ...
Junk Box: Cloudy Then Sunny
by Jerry D'Souza
Satoko Fujii is a prolific composer. Her writing has manifested itself in several projects used to launch her music, Junk Box being one of them. This is the group's second recording and it sees an expansion of the concept she calls composed improvisation, or “Com-Impro," that appeared on its first recording, Fragment (Libra, 2006). It is ...
