Satoko Fujii

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Satoko Fujii in San Diego in September 2008.

Satoko Fujii ( Japanese 藤井 郷 子 , Fujii Satoko ; born October 9, 1958 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese avant-garde jazz pianist and composer . Versatile "Influences from classical to folklore and jazz to heavy metal and punk flow together in their game with surprising processes."

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Fujii began playing the piano at the age of four, received a classical education and then engaged in improvisation and jazz. At the age of 20 she stopped playing the piano and pursued archaic chants in a vocal band. In 1985 she came to the United States for the first time, studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston with Bill Pierce and Herb Pomeroy , where she graduated in 1987 and returned to Japan. In 1993 she returned to the USA and studied jazz performance at the New England Conservatory of Music with George Russell and Paul Bley , from which she graduated in 1996.

A duo album with Paul Bley ( Something about Water ) was created in two sessions around the turn of 1994/95 , followed a year later by her solo album Indication ; from 1997 she worked mainly in duo / trio formations and with larger ensembles, for example for the albums South Wind (1997) and Jo , in which musicians such as Andy Laster , Tony Malaby , Herb Robertson Chris Speed and Jack Walrath participated. In 1998 Fujii worked in a trio with Jim Black and Mark Dresser ; 1999 with the violinist Mark Feldman ; In addition to duos, the album also features solo pieces by Fujii ( Behind the Notes ).
Between 2001 and 2003 she worked with musicians such as Ellery Eskelin , Dave Ballou , Herb Robertson, Joey Sellers on her big band project Blueprint , which echoes Toshiko Akiyoshi's orchestra. On her trio album Illusion Suite from 2003 - again with Mark Dresser and Jim Black - Fujii turned to free improvisational music; In 2004 she expanded the band with her husband, the trumpeter Natsuki Tamura , to a quartet ( Live in Japan 2004 )

Satoko Fujii lives with Natsuki Tamura alternately in Japan and New York City. She has also worked with the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra , Carla Kihlstedt , Nate McBride , Alister Spence and Jane Wang .

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  1. ↑ Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazzlexikon , p. 184
personal data
SURNAME Fujii, Satoko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 藤井 郷 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo