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Satoko Fujii: Cloudy Then Sunny
by Budd Kopman
Junk Box is the name of another group configuration lead by pianist Satoko Fujii, this time in the form of a trio with her husband and musical compatriot, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, and percussionist extraordinaire John Hollenbeck. Audacious and challenging, Cloudy Then Sunny is their second release following the well-received Fragment (Libra, 2006).Approaching her fiftieth ...
Satoko Fujii: Trace A River
by Budd Kopman
With the first high, floating, bowed notes from Mark Dresser's bass, supported by the equally ethereal chords from Satoko Fujii's piano and Jim Black's shimmering cymbals, Trace A River boldly announces the return of her “American" trio, four years after Illusion Suite (Libra, 2004). 2008 finds Fujii turning fifty and she shows no ...
Satoko Fujii featuring Paul Bley: Something About Water
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Paul Bley was one of pianist Satoko Fujii's teachers at the New England Conservatory of Music, which she attended on scholarship in 1993. Upon attaining her Graduate Diploma in Jazz Performance, she recorded the delicately beautiful and mysterious Something About Water (Libra, 1996), that has Bley playing with her on eight of the eleven tracks ...
Carla Kihlstedt / Satoko Fujii: Minamo
by Budd Kopman
For those listeners who enjoy free, truly spontaneous improvisation and the combination of violin and piano, Minamo with violinist Carla Kihlstedt and pianist Satoko Fujii cannot be recommended highly enough.Featuring two live recordings from performances at Rova Saxophone Quartet's 25th Anniversary Festival in San Francisco in 2002 and the Music Unlimited Festival in Wels ...
Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Fujin Raijin
by Budd Kopman
If there is one thing certain in this world, it is that pianist Satoko Fujii will never stop expanding her musical horizons, nor stop amazing the listener. Fujin Raijin is a stupendous, almost terrifying record that shatters any and all expectations during its six tracks. Min-Yoh is Japanese folk music or folk songs ...
When We Were There
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Polystar
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sandstorm; Runaway Radio; When We Were There; In Your Dream; A Path through the Garden; Nourishment; Nocturne; The Line of the Heart; An Excursion; Inori; A Diversion.
In Krakow in November
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Strange Village; A North Wind; Morning Mist; Ninepin; A Holothurian; In Krakow, In November; Explorer; Inori
Kobe Yee!!
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Crab Apple Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Fire; Tobifudo; The Future of the Past; Kobe Yee!!; Shikaku; Sola.
Fujin Raijin
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Les Disques Victo
Released: 2007
Track listing: Itsuki No Komoriuta; Champloo; Shimanto; Slowly and Slowly; Fujin Raijin; Kariboshi Kiriuta.
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Bacchus
by Troy Collins
With a discography of forty plus albums featuring ensembles ranging from intimate duos to big bands, pianist Satoko Fujii is one of Japan's most prolific and versatile jazz artists. The fifth record by her long- standing quartet, Bacchus is preceded by the similarly titled Vulcan (Libra, 2001), Minerva (Libra, 2002), Zephyros (Natsat, 2003) and Angelona (Libra, ...
