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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.
Minerva
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2003
Track listing: Tatsu Take; Warp; Selvedge; Weft; Caught in a Web.
Before the Dawn
By Satoko Fujii
Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Pakonya, Joh-Ha-Cue, Wakerasuka, Before the Dawn, Yattoko Mittoko
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, ...
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 ...
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