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Satoko Fujii Four: When We Were There
by Jerry D'Souza
Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Mark Dresser and Jim Black took time off from their touring schedule in the fall of 2005 to record this CD. There were a couple of changes from their earlier efforts: this was the first time they had Tamura in the studio, and the pieces are shorter than what one has come ...
Natsuki Tamura / Elliott Sharp / Hideki Kato / Satoko Fujii: In The Tank
by Ivana Ng
Live concerts strive for a transcendent quality that can never be translated into CD form. This is especially true for free improvisation, and In the Tank is archetypical of this fact. Natsuki Tamura (trumpet), Elliott Sharp (soprano sax and guitar), Takayuki Kato (guitar) and Satoko Fujii (piano) recorded this concert in 2001 in Japan. The uncomfortable ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Area Sismica - Forlì - 31.10.2006 E’ stata l’unica data italiana all’interno del tour europeo di questa formazione giapponese che, a partire dalla sua costituzione nel 2001, ha ricevuto unanimi apprezzamenti da parte della critica e del pubblico internazionali. Ed è stata ospitata dall’Area Sismica, il club decentrato nel bel mezzo della provincia romagnola che da ...
Satoko Fujii Four: When We Were There
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/composer Satko Fujii--one of the more prolific jazz artists around--leads a variety of ensemble configurations from duos to to bands, and everthing in between. One of her longest-standing groups is her trio with drummer Jim Black and bassist Mark Dresser. When We Were There is the eighth CD she has recorded with the Dresser/Black team, and ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya: Maru
by Jim Santella
Improvising ensembles come in all shapes and sizes. Here's one that begins with the standard big band instrumentation, adds a powerful rock-inspired twist to each selection, folds folkloric themes from around the world into its book, and then launches a hard-swinging free jazz journey. While the band's fabric follows from what Buddy Rich and ...
Satoko Fujii Four: When We Were There
by Troy Collins
When We Were There is the first studio album by pianist Satoko Fujii's new quartet. Her long-running trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black was recently augmented on 2004's Live In Japan (MTCJ) by her husband and frequent collaborator, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura. Eschewing the long form, multipart compositions she is known for, she shifts ...
Satoko Fujii: Bell The Cat!, Illusion Suite, Minerva, Zephyros, and Angelona
by Virginia A. Schaefer
This article looks at five recent albums by pianist and composer Satoko Fujii. Bell The Cat! and Illusion Suite were recorded by the Satoko Fujii Trio. Minerva, Zephyros and Angelona were recorded by the Satoko Fujii Quartet. Fujii's trio plays avant-garde jazz that uses Eastern European or Balkan scales, and complex meters. Bassist ...
Satoko Fujii: Blueprint, Before The Dawn, Sketches, Live In Japan 2004, Fragment
by Virginia A. Schaefer
The prolific pianist, composer and bandleader Satoko Fujii performs and records with a variety of musical configurations. Discs by her two, well established, small groups--the Satoko Fujii Trio and Satoko Fujii Quartet--are reviewed in Part One of this article. Fujii also leads two jazz orchestras, both of which include Natsuki Tamura playing trumpet ...
Satoko Fujii: Kobe Yee!! & Undulation
by Karl A.D. Evangelista
The Japanese-American axis of improvisation has a long and eventful history, further complicated in an age of confused identities. Satoko Fujii, one of Japan's brightest and most forward thinking musicians, wears this story on her sleeve, emerging from the bedrock of cultural confusion with, at last, the hope of progress. Born in 1958, Fujii has cultivated ...
Satoko Fujii: Undulation, Live!!, Maru & Kobe Yee!!
by Bill Bennett
This cornucopia of pianist Satoko Fujii's large ensemble work is a daunting package. It's heavy in more ways than one. Four full-length CDs, three of them over an hour in length and one clocking in at 52:31, plus a simultaneously released concert DVD, add up to one heck of a portion of adventurous music to digest ...
