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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 ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo: Live!!
by Jim Santella
This 2005 concert at Tokyo's Pit Inn (on CD and DVD) brings seven of Satoko Fujii's extended compositions into the open in living color and with open ears. She features two soloists on each piece and builds the music around them. All eyes are on the leader as she conducts them through a program that ranges ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Undulation
by Jim Santella
Satoko Fujii's New York big band carries a big stick, blowing away any and all obstacles as the musicians interpret this program of her soul-stirring compositions. Everyone solos on this creative journey into the avant-garde, and Fujii's cohesive orchestra provides a stable foundation. Undulation, the band's sixth album, is tight. These players have been together long ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra NY: Undulation
by Dan McClenaghan
Turbulence is a defining characteristic of Satoko Fujii's big band projects, where sections of collaborative sonic turmoil roar into moments of no-holds-barred soloing, with the segments of quirky tranquility sneaking in the back door.Undulation, one of four simultaneously released Fujii big band efforts by the ever-prolific pianist/composer/bandleader, features her longest-standing large ensemble, the Satoko ...
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