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Satoko Fujii Quartet: Minerva
by Jim Santella
With its second album, the Satoko Fujii Quartet takes off. Minerva – the Roman goddess of wisdom, invention, the arts, and martial prowess – must surely be looking down from her high abode these days and smiling. Perhaps Lester Bowie and Don Pullen are sitting alongside her. After all, they share Minerva’s respect for invention and ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Minerva
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii--who as much as anybody out there defies the category trap--has recorded in a variety of settings: solo, duo, trio, big band. On 2001's Vulcan, with a quartet, she created arguably her most entrancing sound to date as she teamed with trumpeter (and her husband) Natuki Tamura, bassist Takeharu Hayakawa and drummer Tatsuya Yoshida ...
Clouds
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2002
Track listing: Cirrus; Cumulonimbus; Stratus; Cirrocumuls; Altocumulus; Stratocumulus
Vulcan
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Sun in a Moonlight Night; Incident; Ninepin; Footstep; LH Fast; Neko no Yume; Explorer; Untitled; Junction.
Bell the Cat
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Tokuma Japan
Released: 2002
Track listing: Silence, Get Along Well With..., Slowly and Slowly, Confluence, Foot Step,
Bell the Cat!, Chaploo
Satoko Fujii: Bell the Cat
by Dan McClenaghan
A tough review, this new CD, Bell the Cat! by Satoko Fujii. Her art is an indescribable entity. Avant-Garde, adventurous, daring, startling, “out there." All of those and more. Pianist/composer Fujii began her musical journey in Japan, studying classical music. But she soon found that world too dulling and stuffy for her temperment. Improvisation ...
Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii: Clouds
by Jim Santella
Creative improvised music leaves impressions with us that we translate from our past experiences. A storm sequence or a summer breeze can be as obvious in music as it is on an artist's canvas or through a photographer's lens. Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii improvise six sketches on this session with a ...
Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura: Clouds
by Jerry D'Souza
In the realm of the senses two imaginations entwine. From that fertile fabric comes sounds that elevate, startle and thrill. This is not surprising considering the fact that Fujii and Tamura have a knack of building some very intriguing sound structures. The husband and wife team showed an affinity for drawing upon each other ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Vulcan
by Jim Santella
Four forward-looking artists combine their experience and creative passion for one smokin' session. Satoko Fujii has consistently maintained that dramatic tension be applied to jazz in moderate doses. Vulcan rises and falls with a natural feeling. Like the world around us, her compositions encounter changes in mood – from violent to gentle, bold and humble – ...
