Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin – Ninety-Nine Years (2018)
The Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin really comes onto its own with ‘Ninety-Nine Years.’
The Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin really comes onto its own with ‘Ninety-Nine Years.’
DuBois’s desire to blur the lines between creative jazz, chamber music and folk forms is a quest others before him have taken on, but the challenge of putting it all together both coherently and provocatively is where many have fallen short. Not so with ‘Autumn Wind,’ it excels at that.
With his composing pen, leadership and guitar, Scott DuBois has painted a Monet with ‘Winter Light’.
There isn’t anyone who is exploiting the possibilities presented by big band jazz more aggressively these days than Satoko Fujii. Another chapter in her orchestra book is opened with the Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin debut ‘Ichigo Ichie.’