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Satoko Fujii
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Pianist and composer Satofko Fujii is one of the most original voices in jazz today. For more than 25 years, she has created a unique, personal music that spans many genres, blending jazz, contemporary classical, rock, and traditional Japanese music into an innovative synthesis instantly recognizable as hers alone. Her wide-ranging compositions can incorporate the simple melodies of folk song, the harmonic sophistication of jazz, the rhythmic power of rock, and the extended forms of symphonic composers. As an improviser, Fujii is equally wide-ranging and virtuosic, mingling explosive free jazz energy with delicate melodicism and explorations of the piano’s timbres and textures. “Fujii’s music troubles the divide between abstraction and realism. . . . All of this amounts to abstract expressionism, in musical form. But it’s equaled by her rich sense of simplicity, sprung from the feeling that she is simply converting the riches of the world around her into music,” writes Giovanni Russonello in the New York Times.
Dream a Dream
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Second Step; Dream a Dream; Summer Day; Rain Drop; Aruku.
Altitude 1100 Meters
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Morning Haze; Morning Sun; Early Afternoon; Light Rain; Twilight.
Morning Haze
Album: Altitude 1100 Meters
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 9:35
Summer Day
Album: Dream a Dream
By Satoko Fujii
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 8:53
Yazz Ahmed, Jeong Lim Yang, and Neil Ardley
by Jerome Wilson
This episode features recent releases by Yazz Ahmed, Jeong Lim Yang, and Judy Wexler alongside older music from Neil Ardley, Art Tatum, and Bruno Raberg. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Art Tatum “I Cover ...
Satoko Fujii: Altitude 1100 Meters
by Neri Pollastri
Satoko Fujii non smette di stupirci e deliziarci con le sue creazioni a getto continuo, nelle quali spesso indaga territori fin lì inesplorati: stavolta ci offre un lavoro che la vede alla testa di un sestetto completato da un quartetto d'archi (con contrabbasso al posto del violoncello) --tipo di ensemble con cui finora non si era ...
Felix Henkelhausen, Ochs / Morris / Downs & German Jazz Prize Nominees
by Maurice Hogue
Listening to a tune by German bassist Felix Henkelhausen while traveling in the car led me to check out what he was up to; I discovered he's been nominated for a 2025 German Jazz Prize in the Album of the Year category for Deranged Particles. Soon I was exploring other nominees and that led to incorporating ...
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 Alberto Bazzurro
Ormai da diversi anni ricevere e ascoltare a ritmo battente nuovi lavori di Satoko Fujii è un'abitudine che peraltro, salvo rarissimi casi, ci risulta sempre gradita. L'occhio della pianista nipponica verso la musica, con o senza il suo pendant fisiologico, Natsuki Tamura, possiede infatti una profondità, un'intenzionalità di gesto, e ovviamente concettuale, che le consentono di ...
