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With the first high, floating, bowed notes from Mark Dresser's bass, supported by the equally ethereal chords from Satoko Fujii's piano and Jim Black's shimmering cymbals, Trace A River boldly announces the return of her "American" trio, four years after Illusion Suite (Libra, 2004).
2008 finds Fujii turning fifty and she shows no sign of letting up, also releasing the second recording by Junk Box, Cloudy Then Sunny, and playing accordion on Kuro (Libra, 2008), from her husband Natsuki Tamura's group Gato Libre. Building a discography that now numbers close to sixty, and working in many forms and configurations, Fujii continues to make "music that has never been heard before...
Source: allaboutjazz
Author: Budd Kopman
