Seeing #Hiromi live is unique & inspiring. She's here all week @bluenotenyc #solopiano #duos https://t.co/w7kUvIcmGn https://t.co/KQDEwFaNIA— Blue Note Jazz Club (@BlueNoteNYC) July 26, 2016
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Seeing #Hiromi live is unique & inspiring.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
26 march, happy 37th birthday to pianist Hiromi!
Uploaded on Nov 7, 2011
This interview with noted jazz pianist Hiromi took place at the 2011 Newport Jazz Festival, presented by Natixis. Hiromi appeared at the festival as a solo act as well as in a power trio with Anthony Jackson and Simon Phillips. She talked about playing with Jackson, Phillips and Chick Corea, as well as about her own music education. Finally she discussed her personal and professional response to the Tsunami in Japan.
Interview is one of many taped backstage at the Newport Jazz Festival. Interview by Lee Mergner. Video by Melissa Mergner.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
HIROMI: THE TRIO PROJECT featuring Steve Smith and Anthony Jackson
Hiromi Ueharafirst mesmerized the jazz community with her 2003 Telarc debut, Another Mind. The buzz started by her first album spread all the way back to her native Japan, where Another Mind shipped gold (100,000 units) and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan's (RIAJ) Jazz Album of the Year Award.
The keyboardist/ composer's second release, Brain, won the Horizon Award at the 2004 Surround Music Awards, Swing Journal's New Star Award, Jazz Life's Gold Album, HMV Japan's Best Japanese Jazz Album, and the Japan Music Pen Club's Japanese Artist Award (the JMPC is a classical/jazz journalists club). Brain was also named Album of the Year in Swing Journal's 2005 Readers Poll.
In 2006, Hiromi won Best Jazz Act at the Boston Music Awards and the Guinness Jazz Festival's Rising Star Award. She also claimed Jazzman of the Year, Pianist of the Year and Album of the Year in Swing Journal Japan's Readers Poll for her 2006 release, Spiral. Hiromi continues her winning streak with the 2007 release of Time Control and in 2008,Beyond Standard. Both releases feature Hiromi's super group, Sonic Bloom.
Steve Smith's drumming, while always decidedly modern, can best be described as a style that embodies the history of U.S. music. His original love of rudimental parade drumming is evident in his intricate solos. Likewise, his command of jazz, from New Orleans music, swing, bebop, avant-garde to fusion, is applied with his powerful rock drumming sensibilities and allows him to push the boundaries of all styles to new heights. His musical focus is committed to the exploration of improvised music incorporating styles as diverse as Blues, Jazz, R&B, Funk, Cajun and South Indian Carnatic.
Anthony Jackson has been a distinctive voice on the electric bass ever since he entered the scene in New York City. He began learning the piano as a teen before switching to the guitar, and finally picking up the bass after being influenced by legendary Motown bassist James Jamerson. He has had more than 3000 recording sessions with more than 500 albums.
Monday, March 28, 2011
A benefit for Disaster Relief in Japan Featuring....
A benefit for Disaster Relief in Japan Featuring - solo performance by Hiromi
Wednesday March 30th
All proceeds from the benefit will go to the Japan Civic Force & the Japanese Red Cross.
Hiromi will perform at 8:00 pm
Since the beginning of the decade, pianist-composer Hiromi Uehara has supported her impressive body of work with an ambitious tour schedule that has electrified audiences throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia with performances that have pushed the limits of piano jazz to new frontiers of compositional and technical skills.
Heralded as one of the brightest lights on the piano jazz landscape, the Japanese prodigy has not only lived up to the initial praise for her early efforts but surpassed it entirely. And now to celebrate her “travel journal” and the youth of her 20’s, the Pianist embarks on her first solo piano recording.
Her performance at the Falcon will be a very specail night with all proceeds going to the Japanese Red Cross to help the disaster relief effort. Suggested donations $50.
From: Jazz Promo Services
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Piano Jazz Summit....
Starring Cedar Walton, Jacky Terrasson and Hiromi
Three generations of solo virtuoso jazz pianists in one unique concert event!
Cedar Walton is a hard pop jazz pianist and one of the most universally respected jazz pianists active today. His most recent honor was to be named the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master for 2010.
Jacky Terrasson, winner of the distinctive Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition and two time Grammy nominee, was acclaimed by The New York Times Magazine as “one of 30 artists under the age of 30 most likely to make an impact on American culture in the next 30 years.”
Since her 2003 Telarc debut, Another Mind, keyboardist-composer Hiromi Uehara has electrified audiences and critics on both hemispheres with a creative energy that defies the conventional parameters of jazz and pushes musicianship and composition to unprecedented levels of complexity and sophistication.
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