$22 Seated / $15 Bar & Standing
7:30pm Show
The Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio (with Natto Maki on bass and Oden on drums) will play the original music that pianist Satoko Fujii composed for this trio. Critics and fans alike have hailed Fujii as one of the most original voices in jazz today. She’s “a virtuoso piano improviser, an original composer and a bandleader who gets the best collaborators to deliver,” says John Fordham in The Guardian.
Satoko Fujii’s Tokyo Trio is a lithe, quick-witted ensemble capable of terrific speed and excitement as well as subtle textures and tone colors. The extraordinary rapport between Fujii and fellow Japanese artists Natto Maki on bass and Oden on drums gives the trio a distinctive group sound full of “grace, sophistication, surprise and ingenuity” (S. Victor Aaron, Something Else! Reviews). With a deep knowledge and love of the jazz tradition as its foundation, the Tokyo Trio ventures into new and thrilling sonic territory. The 2021 release of the group’s debut album, Moon on the Lake, recorded live at Tokyo’s Pit Inn, quickly established the Tokyo Trio as a jazz ensemble of note: “a beautifully present trio that speaks to us now and no doubt will stand the test of time” (Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Music Review).
