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Satoko Fujii Trio: Illusion Suite
by Dan McClenaghan
Nobody does the piano trio thing like Satoko Fujii. Almost every other effort out there in this category can be related to Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner... to name just a few. With Fujii, the sound is a category of its own. Free, to be sure, with classical tinges, an the occasional influence ...
Satoko Fujii: Sketches
by Jerry D'Souza
On her first solo record in eight years, Satoko Fujii gives free rein to her impulses. Her approaches are many and she constructs each piece with careful articulation. Her thoughts may run rampant or flow in placid ripple, but there is no denying that she brings in a strong technique that creates some magnetic moments.
Satoko Fujii: Sketches
by Jim Santella
At times drifting through the celestial ether, and as times roaring dramatically through the intense fires below, Satoko Fujii lets her ideas flow freely and spontaneously in real time. Improvising in its purist sense, she caresses her piano and coaxes the music out of it. By employing repetition with each turn of ideas, ...
Satoko Fujii: Sketches
by Dan McClenaghan
Satoko Fujii begins her mornings at home with twenty minutes of piano improvisation. When I heard that, I wanted to find out where she lived, grab a good cup of coffee, find a seat on the sidwalk outside her window, and listen to her keyboard ruminations. The release of her Sketches gives us all the opportunity--without ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Zephyros
by Jerry D'Souza
Satoko Fujii has the capability of making music in several different contexts and breathing life into each one of them. She is back with her quartet for a third album—and if hope springs eternal, that hope is fully realised. The elements of surprise and change are the constants which make listening to her and her band ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Zephyros
by Jim Santella
Swirling with unbridled energy, Satoko Fujii’s quartet forges ahead with creative improvised music that swings. Jazz has to grow. Here’s an ensemble of forward-looking artists who assure us that it will. Natsuki Tamura’s open trumpet provides a warm and resolute companionship to the pianist’s highly charged dynamism. Fujii moves around the grand piano’s ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Zephyros
by Dan McClenaghan
The opening cut on Zephyros, “The Future of the Past," rumbles in like a thunderstorm, full of bass/drum thunder and scattered piano precipitation, cold rain and spatterings of hail, sudden downpours and sharp cracklings of shattering icicles, a prelude to the eye-of-the-storm, ruminative bass solo full of dark omens and sporadic raindrops punctuating the warning.
Before the Dawn
By Satoko Fujii
Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Pakonya, Joh-Ha-Cue, Wakerasuka, Before the Dawn, Yattoko Mittoko
Minerva
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2003
Track listing: Tatsu Take; Warp; Selvedge; Weft; Caught in a Web.
Satoko Fujii Orchestra--East: Before the Dawn
by Dan McClenaghan
Settling down in an easy chair and pushing the play button to spin a Satoko Fujii disc is an experience akin to climbing aboard and plunging into a musical version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: careening along a swerving and uncertain path, jerking into spine-jolting ninety degree turns, dipping, climbing, slowing onto the familiar smooth straightaway, ...
