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Dream a Dream

By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Second Step; Dream a Dream; Summer Day; Rain Drop; Aruku.
Satoko Fujii: Dream a Dream

by John Sharpe
Japanese pianist and composer Satoko Fujii has long demonstrated her ability to marshal ensembles of varying size--from intimate duos to sprawling orchestras--with an ear attuned to both spontaneity and design. On Dream A Dream, the second release from her Tokyo Trio, she reaffirms that a small group can still conjure orchestral breadth when agency and imagination ...
Summer Day

Album: Dream a Dream
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 8:53
Satoko Fujii: Endlessly Challenging

by Doug Collette
One of contemporary jazz music's most prolific artists, pianist/composer/bandleader Satoko Fujii refuses to repeat herself except with a purpose. While she is never reticent to embark on novel adventures in composing, playing, arranging and recording, she is likewise hardly averse to revisiting previous collaborations in search of fresh inspiration in the context of the familiar. Devotees ...
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Dream a Dream

by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Satoko Fujii's artistic vision has held a sharp focus since her recording debut in the late '90s. She has maintained that focus in almost every jazz ensemble configuration imaginable. That unwavering focus, combined with a superhuman creative momentum, has resulted--as of 2025--in a discography of more than a hundred albums. She has been especially effective ...
John Sharpe's Best Releases of 2024

by John Sharpe
From the 200 or so discs that I heard in 2024, here are the ten new issues and three gems saved from obscurity, which gave me the most pleasure. As always these selections are entirely subjective, and take no account of the many other albums which I would no doubt have loved if I had heard ...
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black

by Neri Pollastri
Nuovo trio per la brillante e prolifica pianista giapponese, stavolta con due giovani compagni --il già esperto Takashi Sugawa al contrabbasso e Ittetsu Takemura alla batteria --con i quali mettere in scena qualcosa di parzialmente diverso da quanto ci ha abituato ad ascoltare. La musica dell'album muove sempre da parti scritte dalla Fujii, spesso ...
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Jet Black

by Dan McClenaghan
The January 2024 release of Jet Black starts the year out right. It is the Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio's sophomore recording, presenting the Japanese pianist in one of her most compelling modes of expression: the piano trio. This is not foreign territory for her. She headed up a superb threesome with drummer Jim Black and bassist ...
Along the Way

Album: Jet Black
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 6:25