Satoko Fujii

[manfred]

I`m just listening to a cd of her orchestra "The future of the past", and to "April Shower" with

Mark Feldman.

I like both of them, and they are quite different.

The orchestra reminds me strongly to Carla Bley`s "Escalator", especially, the way, both are

working with brass and reeds, for instance if you listen to track 3 - Incompleted on "The future

of the past", and here especially from about minute 5 to minute 12, or the starting brass "loop"

of track 1 - Pakonya, sometimes it also reminds a bit to mike westbrooks early cds.

Which of her other orchestra cds would you recommend, which are "similar" to the-future-cd????

And what else could you say about her music???

And which of her cds are a bit similar to her cd with mark feldman?

Thank you

Edited July 25, 2010 by manfred

[jlhoots]

Satoko Fuji Orchestra New York: Summer Suite works for me.

[Guest Bill Barton]

A tough question... She is so amazingly prolific that picking and choosing indeed presents a challenge.

I'll leave it to others to address the orchestra discs for the most part. The one you mention is actually one of the few which I don't have, so can't say which ones are similar.

As far as discs that are along the same lines as the one with Mark Feldman, I'd definitely recommend the ones with Carla Kihlstedt. They're a bit more "open form" than April Shower. Minamo (2007) is a single disc and Kuroi Kawa~Black River(2009) is a double-CD set.

Another duo disc that knocks me out is In Krakow, In November (2006) with her husband and musical partner Natsuki Tamura. There's some flat-out gorgeous trumpet playing on this one. In a just and ideal world the title track would become a "jazz standard."

Also highly recommended is the one with Myra Melford, Under the Water (2007). They don't play together on all of the tracks, duos alternate with solos.

[manfred]

Thank you Bill,

i will try to get the recordings with Carla Kihlstedt (never have heard of her!),

and the one with natsuki tamura (that sounds good to me, guess i`ll like

this one....)....

thanks again!

[Guest Bill Barton]

You're welcome, manfred.

Carla Kihlstedt

If nobody else contributes to this thread, in a few days I'll have some more more suggestions for you. In the process of moving right now so not much time...

I'm a bit surprised that jhoots is the only other member to respond so far.

Count me in as one of Satoko's biggest fans.

[Steve Reynolds]

I have a great trio disc with Mark Dresser & Jim Black - on DIW

[Guest Bill Barton]

Check out the last review in this thread, manfred.

[manfred]

Check out the last review in this thread, manfred.

wowh, thank you, that`s what i`ve looked for, i`m deeply impressed.....

thanks!

[clifford_thornton]

I have a nice quartet CD on Not Two that I would recommend to others as well.