From AllAboutJazz.com, Ms. Fujii’s last five releases are reviewed.

Satoko Fujii is a relative newcomer to the scene, having made records on her own or co-led with others since the 1990′s, but she already boasts more than fifty albums led or co-led. The reason for her productivity is because, simply put, she has so much musical to say. The Berklee School of Music grad is a pianist, composer and bandleader on the grandest of scales. She leads full orchestras (that’s right, I mean in the plural), quartets, duets, solo piano and everything in-between. She writes elaborate, mind-boggling scored music, but can create music on the spot that makes sense. She zig zags across artificial musical boundaries like they never existed: 20th century classical, folk, jazz, noise rock and modern creative are common ingredients in her mix, but after a while, you’re not surprised to find any strain of any genre pop up on her songs.

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