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Satoko Fujii Trio: Junction
by Jim Santella
What a trip! From her title track, on down the line, Satoko Fujii's Junction characterizes jazz's modern mainstream as swinging, soulful, and teeming with creative ideas. The music needs outlets like this one in order to grow. Fujii's trio improvises freely, but remains accessible. European classical studies, American jazz traditions, and worldwide folk patterns merge easily ...
Satoko Fujii: Junction/Vulcan
by Mark Corroto
Satoko Fujii just continues to excel in each situation she enters. The young pianist, a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, has recorded everything from solo sessions to large orchestras. Her album, Double Take (Ewe Music 2000), was a masterpiece of large avant-garde ensembles, recording the same music ...
Satoko Fujii: April Shower
by AAJ Staff
Satoko Fujii's daring electicism has marked every encounter since her debut recording with Paul Bley in 1996. She has demonstrated a fearless openness to stylistic freedom that makes everything she's done in the last five years difficult to categorize. Quite simply, the pianist does not fit into any neat little boxes. On April Shower, she joins ...
Jo
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Buzz Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Jo; Kyu; Okesa~Yansado; Wakerasuka; Reminiscence; Jasper; Around the Corner; Sola.
Toward, "To West"
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Enja Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Toward, "To West"; Shake up and down; Oscillation; Then I met you; The way to get there.
Satoko Fujii: Toward, "To West"
by AAJ Staff
Pianist Satoko Fujii refuses to be categorized. (And let me tell you, most jazz reviewers hate that.) Her playing spans the range from tight swing to avant thunder, from experiments inside the piano to tinkering with the blues. For her trio work, she has found worthy companions in exploration. TO West, her second record with bassist ...
Satoko Fujii: Toward,
by Jim Santella
Jazz can be free, improvised, swinging, fiery, and impressionistic. A highly original artist, Satoko Fujii creates music that swings comfortably while pumping up the adrenalin at the same time. On her 32-minute title track, the pianist persuades her trio to tear down the barriers that separate jazz into pigeonholed categories. Along with the groove, you get ...
Satoko Fujii: Toward, "To West"
by Mark Corroto
Coming on the heels of the impressive big band record Double Take, Satoko Fujii’s trio record lofts her onto a creative pinnacle in modern music. The young female Japanese pianist was a former student of Paul Bley and also a former classical piano prodigy. Her rejection of the classical doctrine was not a rejection of a ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra: Double Take
by Jim Santella
Improvised music. And if it swings, then it’s jazz. Satoko Fujii, one of the world’s most interesting big band leaders since Don Ellis, compares the East and the West on this 2-CD set. One disc features her Japanese ensemble, while the other features New York improvisers. Soulful baritone saxophone and electric bass, raging trumpets, wailing trombones, ...
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