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The second CD in a series of compelling releases featuring the lady of avant jazz Satoko Fujii and bass giant Joe Fonda, now with the addition of sax soprano master Gianni Mimmo. The result of a totally improvised one day studio session, "Triad" is a marvellous achievement in daring and spectacular avant jazz music.

REVIEWS

Best of 2018 – Kevin Reilly, Downtown Music Gallery

Honorable Mention, Best New Releases of 2018 – Laurence Donohue-Greene, New York City Jazz Record

4-stars – Neri Pollastri, All About Jazz

4.5-stars – Antonio Poscic, The Free Jazz Collective

“This unique trio seems to have evolved out of a series of chance encounters and it succeeds with completely original ideas and musicianship.” – Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz

“The mood oscillates between deep introspection and intense communion, all three musicians capable of lyricism, without falling into sentimentalism…a successful plunge into the unknown, as well as a reminder that free improvisation is at its best when musicians can establish an immediate connection and are fully committed to a project.” – Alain Drouot, DownBeat

“The works attain a level of beauty that is beyond the limits of anything written or improvised.” – Raul da Gama, Jazz da Gama

“You can’t have too much of this kind of good experimental thing.” – Steve Feeney, Arts Fuse

4-stars: “She's accomplished in every aspect of jazz, from free to noted and folk to avant-garde. Her creative energies burn as brightly as that of David Murray in the 1990s, and Ivo Perelman in this new century.” – Mark Corroto, All About Jazz

“Fujii is an intuitive pianist who seems to approach improvisation with a composer’s sensitivity; she can fill audio space with cascades of sound or can allow ample breathing room with sparser, quasi-premeditated pitch collections.” – Mike Borella, Avant Music News

“There is something beautiful going on here, very organic and rather pure at times. Most of this doesn’t really sound improvised since each section sounds like another scene from an ongoing series of stories… This disc is magical/musical improv at its best!” – Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

“Of all the Fujii releases so far this year in her one-per-month 60th birthday celebration, for me, Triad is the most special.” – Peter Thelen, Expose

“Free jazz artists Satoko Fujii, Joe Fonda and Gianni Mimmo come together to create music that is inspired by the mysteries of the universe. They poke at each other playfully to spark moments of brilliance and complexity.” – Oscar Groomes, O’s Place

“Sonic Jackson Pollocks…boldly going where no man has gone before.” – George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly

“As a pianist, Fujii can be unto a force of nature, a torrent of swirling notes and spiky clusters. For the uninitiated she can evoke powerful key-crackers Cecil Taylor and Don Pullen; Fujii also embodies the oblique lyricism and delicate touch of Myra Melford (with whom she’s duetted) and Matthew Shipp. While no one is liable to mistake her for Errol Garner, Fujii’s output features sublimely lyrical and emotionally directly playing…heartily recommended.” – Mark Keresman, JazzEd Magazine

“She is a genius.” – John Payne, Bluefat

“Fujii’s talents as an improviser are on display on Triad, a without-a-net balancing act by her, bassist Joe Fonda and Italian reedplayer Gianni Mimmo…a match made in heaven…. Empathy abounds, most notably on the stunning 42-minute ‘Birthday Girl’. It evolves so naturally from one episode to another, from dashing interplay to dramatic gesture to pointillist exchange, it seems governed by its own internal logic.” – John Sharpe, New York City Jazz Record


Joe Fonda “is a serious seeker of new musical horizons,” says the Boston Phoenix. From 1984 to 1999, he was the bassist with composer-improviser and NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton. Fonda also has been an integral member of several cooperative bands, including the Fonda-Stevens Group with Michael Jefry Stevens, Herb Robertson, and Harvey Sorgen; Conference Call, with Gebhard Ullmann, Stevens, and George Schuller; the Fab Trio with Barry Altschul and Billy Bang; and the Nu Band with Mark Whitecage, Roy Campbell, and Lou Grassi. He is currently a member of The 3dom Factor, Altschul’s trio with saxophonist Jon Irabagon, and guitarist Michael Musillami’s trio, among others. He has led some truly unique ensembles of his own including From the Source, which features four instrumentalists, a tap dancer, and a body healer/vocalist; and Bottoms Out, a sextet with Gerry Hemingway, Joe Daley, Michael Rabinowitz, Claire Daly, and Gebhard Ullmann. He has released twelve recordings under his own name.

Improviser and composer Gianni Mimmo has built an international reputation for his unique treatment of musical timbre and his exploration of advanced techniques on the soprano saxophone. Based in Milan, Italy, Gianni is known for his innovative cross-disciplinary projects with poetry, photography installations, and film, as well as solo performances and international collaborations with improvisers in the US and throughout Europe. He has worked in duos with US cellist Daniel Levin, Basque guitarist Xabier Iriondo, English violinist Alison Blunt, pianist Gianni Lenoci, and fellow soprano saxophonist Harry Sjöström. He is a member of improvising ensembles the Shoreditch Trio and the Wild Chamber Trio. He performs improvised scores for film, composes graphic scores for chamber quintets ands of poetry and spoken word texts. He has operated Amirani Records since 2005.

Critics and fans alike hail pianist and composer Satoko 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. In concert and on more than 80 albums as a leader or co-leader, she synthesizes jazz, contemporary classical, avant-rock, and Japanese folk music into an innovative music instantly recognizable as hers alone. Over the years, Fujii has led some of the most consistently creative ensembles in modern improvised music, including her trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black, the Min-Yoh Ensemble, and an electrifying avant-rock quartet featuring drummer Tatsuya Yoshida of The Ruins.

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released May 25, 2018

SATOKO FUJII: piano
JOE FONDA: double bass, flute
GIANNI MIMMO: soprano saxophone

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