Natsuki Tamura (田村夏樹) — Full Discography

Trumpet, composer. Born 26 July 1951, Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Discogs artist 1277189. 183 credited releases, 27 of them under his own name.

Leader releases (own name)

Two further leader-billed titles sit outside the sequence above: Live In Paris (2020, LEONEsurprise featuring Satoko Fujii, Sylvain Kassap and Natsuki Tamura, self-released) and Keshin (2020, Libra Records 102-064, Tamura and Fujii, both credited as composers, self-recorded). Keshin streams on Bandcamp.

Gato Libre

Formed 2005. Original quartet: Tamura (trumpet), Satoko Fujii (accordion), Kazuhiko Tsumura (nylon-string guitar), Norikatsu Koreyasu (bass). Koreyasu passed away in September 2011 and was succeeded by trombonist Yasuko Kaneko. Tsumura passed away in 2015 and the guitar chair was not filled, leaving a trio.

Kaze

Formed 2011. Japanese and French quartet with a two-trumpet front line: Tamura and Christian Pruvost (trumpet), Satoko Fujii (piano), Peter Orins (drums).

Natsuki Tamura Quartet

Duo with Satoko Fujii

Trumpet and piano, running from 1997 to the present.

Sideman, appearance and producer credits (chronological)

Roughly 150 further credits. Grouped by era.

Big band and studio years, 1978 to 1980. All with Toshiyuki Miyama's New Herd or its orbit: Tribute (Union Records GU-5011, 1978); Ayako Hosokawa with T. Miyama & The New Herd, Call Me (1979); Takashi Kako with Miyama and the New Herd, El Al (1979); Gallery (1979); So Long Charles: New Herd Plays For Charles Mingus (Denon YX-7594-ND, 1979, Tamura credited "Trumpet [2nd]"); Opa! New Herd with Sambatuque '78 (1979); Big Stuff, New Herd plays Chikara Ueda (1980). A CD reissue of Tribute followed on Teichiku in 1991.

Return and the Fujii orbit, 1992 to 2004. Tobifudoh (1992); Satoko Fujii featuring Paul Bley, Something About Water (1996); Fujii's Looking Out Of The Window (1997, as producer); Satoko Fujii Orchestra, South Wind (1997, appearance and producer); Yuko Kokusho, Kamakura (1997); Satoko Fujii Sextet, Past Life (1999); Katsuyuki Itakura, Calendar Of Copse (1999); the Kujaku film soundtrack (Sony, 1999); Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Jo (2000, appearance and producer); Double Take (2000); Shibusashirazu Orchestra, Keihaku Utagassen (2000); Satoko Fujii Trio, Toward, "To West" (2000), Junction (2001); Satoko Fujii Quartet, Vulcan (2001), Minerva (2002), Zephyros (2003); Toh-Kichi (Fujii and Tatsuya Yoshida), Toh-Kichi (2002); Satoko Fujii Orchestra East, Before The Dawn (2003); The Future Of The Past (2003); Itaru Oki Unit, Live (2004); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya Version, Nagoyanian (2004); Satoko Fujii Trio, Illusion Suite (2004); Rova::Orkestrova, An Alligator In Your Wallet (2004); Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Blueprint (2004).

2005 to 2012. Improvised Music From Japan 2005; Satoko Fujii Quartet, Angelona (2005); Satoko Fujii Four, Live In Japan 2004 (2005); *Masahiko Satoh & Saifa, Live At Moers (Tribute to Masahiko Togashi), BAJ Records BJCD 0026 (2005), Tamura on trumpet with Satoh conducting from the piano and Kohsuke Mine on tenor*; Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya, Maru (2006); Junk Box, Fragment (2006); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo, Live!! (2006); Satoko Fujii Four, When We Were There (2006); Satoko Fujii Orchestra NY, Undulation (2006); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe, Kobe Yee!! (2006); Itaru Oki Unit, Iroha-Uta volumes 1 and 2 (2006); Jimmy Weinstein's Natural Coincidence, This Ocean (2006); Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble, Fujin Raijin (2007); Satoko Fujii Quartet, Bacchus (2007); Double Duo, Crossword Puzzle (2007); Itaru Oki Special Group, Soul Eyes (2007); Junk Box, Cloudy Then Sunny (2008, appearance and producer); Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York, Summer Suite (2008); Satoko Fujii Trio, Trace A River (2008); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya, Sanrei (2008); Satoko Fujii Ma-Do, Heat Wave (2008), Desert Ship (2010), Time Stands Still (2013); Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core, Stone Shift (2009); First Meeting, Cut The Rope (2010); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo, Zakopane (2010); The Raymond MacDonald International Big Band, Buddy (2010); Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York, Eto (2011); Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble, Watershed (2011); Atsuki Kimura, Moon Call and Daylight In Harlem (2011); Bill Wells, Lemondale (2011); Toshiharu Osato, Takaraneta Nchoto Takaine (2011); Norikatsu Koreyasu, Lush Life (2012).

2013 to 2019. Satoko Fujii, Gen Himmel (2013); Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York, Shiki (2014); Lucrecia Dalt, How Can We Be Otherwise? (2014); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin, Ichigo Ichie (2015); Satoko Fujii Tobira, Yamiyo Ni Karasu (2015); Porta Palace Collective, Neuroplastic Groove (2016); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo, Peace (Tribute To Kelly Churko) (2016); Satoko Fujii and Joe Fonda, Duet (2016, appearance and producer), Four (2019); Trouble Kaze, June (2017); Larry Ochs Sax And Drumming Core, Wild Red Yellow (2017); Satoko Fujii Quartet, Live At Jazz Room Cortez (2017); Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York, Fukushima (2017); Satoko Fujii, Solo (2018); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin, Ninety-Nine Years (2018); Kira Kira, Bright Force (2018); This Is It!, 1538 (2018); Mahobin, Live At Big Apple In Kobe (2018); Amu, Weave (2018); Yuko Yamaoka, Diary 2005-2015 (2018); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Tokyo, Kikoeru (Tribute To Masaya Kimura) (2018); Alister Spence and Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe, Imagine Meeting You Here (2019); Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York, Entity (2019); Toh-Kichi, Baikamo (2019).

2020 to 2026. Rafał Mazur, The Great Tone Has No Sound (2020); Futari, Beyond (2020); Wandering The Sound Quintet, What Is...? (2021); This Is It!, Mosaic (2021); Ikue Mori, Tracing The Magic (Tzadik, 2022); Satoko Fujii, Hyaku, One Hundred Dreams (2022); Motsure, Eclectic (2022); 5 Trumpets, 5 Trumpets (2022); Amanojaku, Amanojaku (2023), Bishamonten (2024); Satoko Fujii Quartet, After Fifteen Years, Live At Buddy (2023), Dog Days Of Summer (2024), Burning Wick (2025); Satoko Fujii, Torrent (2023); Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Jet Black (2024), Dream A Dream (2025); Kira Kira, Kira Kira Live (2024); Satoko Fujii Gen, Altitude 1100 Meters (2025); Satoko Fujii, This Is It!, Message (2025); Satoko Fujii's Bunker Ulmenwall Orchestra (2025); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe, After The Storm (2026); Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin, Second Attempt (2026).

Three further items are catalogued on Discogs as unofficial releases, all Satoko Fujii Quartet live recordings issued on OMX in 2006: Manggha 2003, Blue Note Poznań 2003 and Traffic 2003.