SATOKO FUJII
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Progressive Big Band, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, 21st Century Modern, Third Stream, Eclectic Fusion • Japan

For Satoko Fujii-Natsuki Tamura duo look under Tamura-Fujii Born on October 9, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan, Fujii began playing piano at four and received classical training until twenty, when she turned to jazz. From 1985–87, she studied at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where her teachers included Herb Pomeroy and Bill Pierce. She returned to Japan for six years before returning to the US to study at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where her teachers included George Russell, Cecil McBee, and Paul Bley, who appeared on her debut CD Something About Water (Libra, 1996). Since then Fujii has founded and led numerous ensembles, ranging from duos to big bands. Her New York trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black has released seven critically acclaimed CDs. "Her most substantial and musically rewarding small group outing to date," wrote Glenn Astarita of their third release, Toward ‘To West’ read more...