Hiromi Uehara - Caravan

Hiromi Uehara & Kazunori Kumagai

Published on Aug 22, 2016
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Hiromi Uehara - Sicilian Blue

Published on Apr 7, 2012
Hiromi - 'Sicilian Blue.'
From the concert at Jazz in Marciac. August 4, 2010.

Concert Review: Hiromi Uehara

Hangar 11, Tel Aviv, November 16
Jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara may be pint-sized, but she certainly knows how to command a stage. The Japanese- born musician, known to fans by just her first name, performed in Israel for the fourth time Monday night, to a rapt and awed audience.

The 36-year-old took the stage in Tel Aviv’s Hangar 11 as part of “Hiromi: The Trio Project,” alongside Simon Phillips on drums and Anthony Jackson on bass.

From the moment her hands first touched the keys of her piano, Hiromi came alive with an electricity and energy that lasted through the magical 90-minute set, mixing jazz with pop, rock and classical influences.

As she played songs including “Spark,” “Player,” “Take Me Away” and “In a Trance,” her body moved as if possessed by the music, her arms and legs shaking, her hair bouncing along to the beat and her fingers flying up and down the keys in a rapid blur.

read more: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Concert-Review-Hiromi-Uehara-434411

Chick Corea & Hiromi

Duet 02 Old Castle, by the River, in the Middle of a Forest

Blue Note Jazz Festival Presents: HIROMI: The Trio Project

Hiromi: The Trio Project feat. Anthony Jackson & Simon Phillips

2014-06-25
Showtime: 8:00PM

FEATURING:
Hiromi, piano & keyboards 
Anthony Jackson, bass 
Simon Phillips, drums

Pianist and composer Hiromi Uehara, whose passionate and incendiary keyboard work has been a shining light on the jazz landscape since her 2003 debut, believes that the voice that never speaks can sometimes be the most powerful of all. Her newest release, a nine-song trio recording simply titled Voice, expresses a range of human emotions without the aid of a single lyric. Voice is set for a June 7, 2011, release on Telarc, a division of Concord Music Group.
See more at: http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=11984#sthash.nBe2Y4AQ.dpuf

Hiromi Uehara Live At "Blue Note", New York

Voice - The Trio Project by Hiromi

Even by modern-day standards, jazz piano trios are not customarily designed with sheer firepower and a gargantuan rhythmic presence.   On this album set for USA release in June 2011, Japanese pianist Hiromi fuses her energized musical persona with revered artists, bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips. 

Hiromi's astounding technical acumen, flashy persona and commanding leadership skills are supplemented by a powerful support structure that accelerates the rapidly moving parts.  More important is that many of the leader's compositions provide memorable hooks and a dazzling array of pulsating metrics.  However, it's not about bombast and wanton soloing as the trio's modish presentation alludes to a certain hip-ness, especially when integrated into funk, jazz-rock, and cascading dynamics.

Hiromi delves into classical formats via her comprehensive line of attack, evidenced on Beethoven's "Piano Sonata No.8, Pathetique" and within choice spots throughout the album.  Simon Phillips' rock-tuned drum kit adds a formidable presence along with Jackson's intricately articulated bass lines.  Essentially, these pieces are executed with one climactic event after another amid a few temperate passages and precision-oriented unison runs.

·         Artist / Group Name: Hiromi

·         CD Title: Voice - The Trio Project

·         Genre: Various Jazz Styles

·         Year Released: 2011

·         Record Label: Telarc

·         Musicians: Hiromi (piano, keyboards), Anthony Jackson (contrabass guitar), Simon Phillips (drums)

·         Artist Website: hiromimusic.com

·         Label Website: concordmusicgroup.com

·         Rating: Five Stars

Full on: http://www.jazzreview.com/reviews/latest-cd-track-reviews/item/27680-voice-the-trio-project-by-hiromi.html

Hiromi - Old Castle, by the River, in the Middle of a Forest (live)

Hiromi, Michael Camilo on Jaz set

by Becca Pulliam
First, just inside the festival gate, the audience packs the Harbor Stage for Hiromi. Her light-to-squeaky onstage voice belies her huge piano sound and technique, applied full-bore to longtime warhorses "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" and "I Got Rhythm." Hiromi's stride-style left hand pumps rhythm to support the fabulous speed and articulation of her right. And, with her electronic keyboard and guitarist John Shannon in her band, she's got fusion in her arsenal, too. She calls her group Sonic Bloom. Photo: Wiqan Ang

On the main stage, Michel Camilo is a Newport veteran. After Hiromi attended his Master classes at Berklee College of Music in Boston, the two performed duo piano concerts in Japan. Camilo is the current Jazz Creative Chair with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He and the DSO have performed Camilo's first piano concerto and will stage the American premiere of his second in February 2011, with Leonard Slatkin conducting. In other words, Michel Camilo operates at the top of the musical world and without borders.

Complete on  >>  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125161657&sc=nl&cc=jn-20100801

Hiromi Uehara Trio - Love & Laughter

Hiromi Uehara Trio on Japanese TV in 2005 Hiromi Uehara - piano Tony Grey - bass Martin Valihora - drums

Hiromi - Place to Be

By Steve Greenlee

If you’ve seen Hiromi Uehara in concert, you’ve been waiting for this moment—her first solo album. Hiromi, as she’s known, has released five previous albums under her own name, but on each of them she’s been backed by a modern-fusion group—electric guitar, electric bass, drums—and she plays synthesizer as well as piano. The highlight of virtually every Hiromi show, however, is an unaccompanied piano solo. She plays blindingly fast yet flawlessly. She has a deep affinity for the blues and loves the lower end of the register but isn’t afraid to throw in some dissonant non-chords either. Hell, she’s not afraid to throw in an elbow. You haven’t lived till you’ve heard her version of “I Got Rhythm.”

It’s sheer delight, then, to hear Place to Be, a collection of 12 solos that run the gamut. “Choux a la Crème” is Hiromi at her best: steeped in the blues, with a thumping stride of a left hand, a rapid-fire right, and some contrasting thunks for good measure. (Food seems to be a theme with Hiromi; this album also has a song called “Cape Cod Chips,” a Vince Guaraldi-style tribute to her favorite snack when she was studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.) “BQE,” on the other hand, isn’t blues-based (or food-based) at all—its hectic nature is intended to convey the mania of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway—but it’s equally juicy.

The most intriguing selection is her take on Pachelbel’s Canon. The higher piano strings are treated—how, it’s not clear—so that they approximate a harpsichord. She plays the first run-through straight and then takes liberties that add a gentle bluesy feeling. Throw in her dynamically swinging three-part suite “Viva! Vegas” and you’ve got the most refreshing solo piano record to come along in some time.
http://jazztimes.com/articles/25660-place-to-be-hiromi

Someday my prince will come

Watanabe, Sadao(As),
Autin Peralta(p),
Uehara, Hiromi(p),
Chick Corea(p)
and The Great Jazz Trio

Hiromi: Pachelbel's Canon, Reinvented

by Marc Silver
January 15, 2010 - Pianists have long played Pachelbel's stately Canon, but Japanese jazz player Hiromi Uehara stands out for her treatment of this classical chestnut. In the version on her new CD, Place to Be, she starts off sounding like a typical, earnest student, plunking the oft-heard melody at a deliberate pace. Then the piano takes on a weird sound — strained, thin, metallic, almost like a robo-harpiscord. Hiromi has "prepared" her instrument by placing a metal ruler on the strings to alter its essence. Instantly, the Canon loses its familiarity.

Next, the 30-year-old keyboardist fiddles with the piece itself, adding syncopation and swing and charming, stuttered notes. She turns the melody over to the left hand; her right hand reappears with enchanting trills and intricate improvisations on the melody. Rolling chords, tinged with dissonance, rise and fall like ocean waves.

Throughout, Hiromi's classical technique is evident in her firm yet light touch, in her impeccable sense of time and in her respect for the structure of the piece, even as she turns it inside-out. Her reinvention of the Canon is whimsical and witty, moody and meandering. Yet, in the end, the piece wanders back to its original form: Hiromi's restless fingers land on the final chord, delicately and sweetly, just as millions of pianists have done before her.

Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara - Spain

Nov 14, 2009 Hanger 11 (Sonicbloom) Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL
Nov 17, 2009 Sapporo Education and Culture Hall (solo) Sapporo, JAPAN
Nov 19, 2009 Kyoto Concert Hall (solo) Kyoto, JAPAN
Nov 20, 2009 Hokkoku Shinbun Akabane Hall (solo) Kanazawa, JAPAN
Nov 21, 2009 Tsukushi Hall (solo) Fukuoka, JAPAN
Nov 24, 2009 Awagin Hall (solo) Tokushima, JAPAN
Nov 26, 2009 Actcity Hamamatsu (solo) Hamamatsu, JAPAN
Nov 27, 2009 Concert Hall Shizuoka AOI (solo) Shizuoka, JAPAN
Nov 28, 2009 Tokyo International Forum Hall-C (solo) Tokyo, JAPAN
Nov 29, 2009 Tokyo International Forum Hall-C (solo) Tokyo, JAPAN
Dec 6, 2009 The Symphony Hall (solo) Osaka, JAPAN
Dec 8, 2009 Kochi City Culture Plaza (solo) Kochi, JAPAN
Dec 9, 2009 Shirakawa Hall (solo) Nagoya, JAPAN
Dec 10, 2009 Shirakawa Hall (solo) Nagoya, JAPAN
Dec 11, 2009 Hatsukaichi Culture Hall (solo) Hiroshima, JAPAN
Dec 13, 2009 Arkas SASEBO (solo) Nagasaki, JAPAN
Dec 14, 2009 Suntry Hall (solo) Tokyo, JAPAN
Dec 16, 2009 Sendai City Culture Center (solo) Sendai, JAPAN
Dec 17, 2009 Niigata City Music and Culture Hall (solo) Niigata, JAPAN
Dec 18, 2009 Kurashiki City GEIBUNKAN (solo) Okayama, JAPAN
Dec 24, 2009 Sumida Triphony Hall (with New Japan Philharmonic) Tokyo, JAPAN

Hiromi Uehara

Hiromi Uehara first 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.

Born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1979, Hiromi took her first piano lessons at age six. She learned from her earliest teacher to tap into the intuitive as well as the technical aspects of music.
"Her energy was always so high, and she was so emotional," Hiromi says of her first piano teacher. "When she wanted me to play with a certain kind of dynamics, she wouldn't say it with technical terms. If the piece was something passionate, she would say, 'Play red.' Or if it was something mellow, she would say, 'Play blue.' I could really play from my heart that way, and not just from my ears."

Hiromi took that intuitive approach a step further when she enrolled in the Yamaha School of Music less then a year after her first piano lessons. By age 12, she was performing in public, sometimes with very high-profile orchestras. "When I was 14, I went to Czechoslovakia and played with the Czech Philharmonic," she says. "That was a great experience, to play with such a professional orchestra."
Further into her teens, her tastes expanded to include jazz as well as classical music. A chance meeting with Chick Corea when she was 17 led to a performance with the well-known jazz pianist the very next day.

"It was in Tokyo," Hiromi recalls. "He was doing something at Yamaha, and I was visiting Tokyo at the time to take some lessons. I talked to some teachers and said that I really wanted to see him. I sat down with him, and he said 'Play something.' So I played something, and then he said, 'Can you improvise?' I told him I could, and we did some two-piano improvisations. Then he asked me if I was free the next day. I told him I was, and he said, 'Well, I have a concert tomorrow. Why don't you come?' So I went there, and he called my name at the end of the concert, and we did some improvisations together."
After a couple years of writing advertising jingles for Nissan and a few other high-profile Japanese companies, Hiromi came to the United States in 1999 to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. For as open as her musical sensibilities had already been when she came to the U.S., the Berklee experience pushed her envelope even further.

"It expanded so much the way I see music," she says. "Some people dig jazz, some people dig classical music, some people dig rock. Everyone is so concerned about who they like. They always say, 'This guy is the best,' 'No, this guy is the best.' But I think everyone is great. I really don't have barriers to any type of music. I could listen to everything from metal to classical music to anything else."
Among her mentors at Berklee was veteran jazz bassist Richard Evans, who teaches arranging and orchestration. Evans co-produced Another Mind, her Telarc debut, with longtime friend and collaborator Ahmad Jamal, who has also taken a personal interest in Hiromi's artistic development. "She is nothing short of amazing," says Jamal. "Her music, together with her overwhelming charm and spirit, causes her to soar to unimaginable musical heights."

At 26, Hiromi stands at the threshold of limitless possibility, constantly drawing inspiration from virtually everyone and everything around her. Her list of influences, like her music itself, is boundless. "I love Bach, I love Oscar Peterson, I love Franz Liszt, I love Ahmad Jamal," she says. "I also love people like Sly and the Family Stone, Dream Theatre and King Crimson. Also, I'm so much inspired by sports players like Carl Lewis and Michael Jordan. Basically, I'm inspired by anyone who has big, big energy. They really come straight to my heart."

But she won't, as a matter of principle, put labels on her music. She'll continue to follow whatever moves her, and leave the definitions to others.
"I don't want to put a name on my music," she says. "Other people can put a name on what I do. It's just the union of what I've been listening to and what I've been learning. It has some elements of classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don't want to give it a name."

Telarc Discography:
Another Mind (2003) CD-83558
Brain (2004) CD-83600
Spiral (2005) CD-83631
Time Control (2007) CD-83655
Beyond Standard (2008) CD-83686

Hiromi Uehara - The Tom and Jerry Show

Hiromi plays her hit "The Tom and Jerry Show."
This is INCREDIBLY impressive technically