Satoko is bringing her Japanese Quartet with Tatsuya in late spring early summer. So far I know of dates in NYC, Philly (painted bride) Houston, Austin, and San Diego (spruce street forum)....
I will post an itinerary when it is all confirmed
She will perform a duo with Tatsuya at Victoriaville.....
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:23:54 +0000
From: "Kurt Gottschalk" <ecstasymule@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Satoko Fujii Quartet
hi --
yeah, absolutely, fuji is a phenom, and 'vulcan' is far from one of her
best. tatsuya, unsurprisingly, plays loud, although not completely drowning
out everyone else, and it's fun to hear him in a jazz context.
as was mentioned, the dresser/black trio is quite good. but easily her best
stuff is the big band records, specifically the east/west double cd. she is
right up there with william parker in bringing the big band into the present
day.
agreed, too, that she should be more recognized in the states than she is,
although spending more time here would surely help (she lived here when she
attended the new england conservatory and studied under paul bley, as i
understand, but now spends her time back in japan, and seems to play here
very rarely).
kg
Pedro Moreno
Epistrophy Arts
http://www.epistrophyarts.org
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:08:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Ryan Novak <ryan_novak@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Massacre Live
>Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:32:54 +0000
>From: "Arthur Gadney" <a_gadney@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Massacre live
>Hm, I do like some of Laswell's stuff, but still kind
>of agree... I mean, in
>EVERY impro situation you can be sure that he will
>start dubbing.
>
>I haven't heard "Metldown" by Massacre yet, but would
>be highly surprised if
>he didn't dub trhough that as well. Any comments on
>this album? Does it
>rock? SHould I by it? How is Haywards singing?
Yeah it rocks- might rock a bit too much actually as
Laswell and Hayward often hit familiar grooves
throughout, but Fred plays at the top of his game.
There's no singing as far as I heard on my two listens
of the disc but Hayward plays a little harmonium I
think on a small part.
It does contain all the Laswell trademarks I guess,
but they didn't bother me. And he even does that
synthy volume swelling thing he seems to do on every
more recent recording I've heard, but it doesn't last
that long and I didn't find it annoying. There's also
a whole track of the crowd cheering for an encore and
it seems almost completely unedited from the
performance (which I was not at). Very good I think.
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:40:05 -0500
From: James Hale <jhale@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Satoko Fujii
The other name I've heard is Aki Takase. Not to be missed if her last concerts
in Canada were any indication.
James Hale
Arthur Gadney wrote:
> >She will perform a duo with Tatsuya at Victoriaville.....
>
> Any news on who else will play?? I know Eugene Chadbourne will duo with Rene
> Lussier, which ought to be great fun.
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:39:21 EST
From: MorMovies@aol.com
Subject: Re: Massacre Live
I think MELTDOWN is the cd of the year. Laswell navigates between dub lines and those scary envelope filter sounds. I once told that him that I thought his bass sounded like rolling thunder and he said that is precisely what he tries to achieve. For some reason I never get bored of Laswell's dub style. It's all about the groove and not the notes. On the other hand he usually breaks it up with his "free" runs and harmonics. Hayward definitely performs some vocals on one but if you listen closely, it sounds like they were drained out of the mix. I have other live shows and he screaming right into the mic.
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:32:45 -0500
From: "Nirav Soni" <nirav@ink19.com>
Subject: Re: Suzuki (NZC)
> I recommend this site for everybody interested in
> Seijun Suzuki:
I recommend this to any NYC fans: http://www.japansociety.org/film.htm . I
rented "Tokyo Drifter" and Takeshi Kitano's "Brother" today....so it'll be a
fun filled two days of Japanese violence!
Nirav
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:13:10 -0500
From: Rick Lopez <bb10k@velocity.net>
Subject: Re: Hartley; Ibarra quartet
on 02.01.17 11:16 AM, Benito Vergara at bvergara@sfsu.edu wrote:
> Marilyn Crispell Trio / Susie
> Ibarra Quartet concert in March in San Francisco?
Oh my gawd. Is this a tandem tour or just you got extremely lucky ???
