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Impressionistic improvising from husband and wife piano & trumpet duo from Tokyo, Japan

Critics and fans alike hail pianist and composer Satoko Fujii as one of the most original voices in jazz today. She is a “virtuoso piano improviser, an original composer and a band-leader who gets the best collaborators to deliver,” says John Fordham in The Guardian. In concert and on over thirty-five albums as a leader or co-leader, the Tokyo resident synthesizes jazz, contemporary classical, avant-rock and Japanese folk music into an innovative music, instantly recognizable as hers alone. Since she burst onto the scene after graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music, Fujii has led some of the most consistently creative ensembles in modern improvised music.

Natsuki Tamura has an active performing career split between his homeland and the United States. He has been widely recognised for his extremely unique and accomplished playing and has been compared with players as diverse as Lester Bowie, Miles Davis, and Freddie Hubbard. He has been featured worldwide at festivals including the 1998 Texaco New York Jazz Festival in a solo trumpet performance, Newport Jazz in Madarao, Japan Jazz Aid, Yokohama Jazz, Yatsugatake Jazz, Kobe Jazz, and Hibiya Jazz, as well as in clubs such as the Knitting Factory in New York, the Carnival Jazz Club, Babel 2nd, and Pit Inn in Tokyo, Airgin in Yokohama, and the Willow Jazz Club in Boston, among others.

http://satokofujii.com/