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Hiromi
Jazz / Experimental / Progressive

new album "Place To Be" coming soon!



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Member Since10/7/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.hiromimusic.com
Band MembersHiromi -- piano
Tony Grey -- bass
Martin Valihora - drums
David “Fuze” Fiuczynski - guitar
Mauricio Zottarelli -- drums
John Shannon -- guitar
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Hiromi Uehara



Influences“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.” --Hiromi
Sounds LikeBut few Japanese jazz pianists are as strikingly original, either as composers or performers, as Hiromi Uehara, who performs under her first name only. She has an instantly recognizable style, featuring a dense flurry of notes and chords that recalls Art Tatumwho, not surprisingly, is one of her idols. -- Billboard "Artist To Watch"

Among those artists currently reinventing the jazz piano triosuch as E.S.T and The Bad PlusHiromi is rapidly moving to the forefront...Hiromi practices an art of surprise, touching on video-game tempos and Bill Evans harmonies as she arranges tradition and novelty in fresh configurations. -- Amazon.com

[Hiromis] solos flow like water and demonstrate classical chops harnessed to a fierce energy. The title tracks many facets range from a gentle, tuneful passage to a merry-go-round on growth hormones. Bassist Tony Grey, drummer Martin Valihora, and bassist Anthony Jackson provide simpatico backing for the Hiromi tsunami. -- Philadelphia Inquirer

Hiromis loving energetic character seeps into your skin while listening, and its rather a refreshing experience. There is a blasting beaming ray of light filtering through this artistic young talent. Listen to it speak! -- The Female Musician

HIROMI'S SONICBLOOM: TIME CONTROL - NOW ON ITUNES!!! Hiromi - Hiromi's Sonic Bloom: Time Control..



Record LabelTelarc
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 14 2009 8:00P
Hangar 11 Tel Aviv
Nov 17 2009 8:00P
Sapporo Education Center & Culture Hall- Solo Culture Sapporo
Nov 19 2009 8:00P
Kyoto Concert Hall- Solo Concert Kyoto
Nov 20 2009 8:00P
Kanazawa Hokkoku Akabane Hall- Solo Concert Kanazawa
Nov 21 2009 8:00P
Fukuoka Tsukushi Hall- Solo Concert Fukuoka
Nov 24 2009 8:00P
Tokushima Awagin Hall- Solo Concert Tokushima
Nov 26 2009 8:00P
Hamamatsu Act Hall- Solo Concert Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka
Nov 27 2009 8:00P
Shizuoka Concert Hall AOI- Solo Concert Shizuoka
Nov 28 2009 8:00P
Tokyo International Forum Hall C- Solo Concert Tokyo
Nov 29 2009 8:00P
Tokyo International Forum Hall C- Solo Concert Tokyo
Dec 3 2009 8:00P
Carnegie Hall- George Wein- Zankel Hall- Solo Concert New York, New York
Dec 6 2009 8:00P
The Symphony Hall- Solo Concert Osaka
Dec 8 2009 8:00P
Kochi Culture Plaza- Solo Concert Kochi
Dec 9 2009 8:00P
Nagoya Shiraskawa Hall- Solo Concert Nagoya
Dec 10 2009 8:00P
Nagoya Shirakawa Hall- Solo Concert Nagoya
Dec 11 2009 8:00P
Hiroshima Hatsukaichi Sakurapia- Solo Concert Hiroshima
Dec 13 2009 8:00P
Nagasaki Arkas Sasebo- Solo Concert Nagasaki
Dec 14 2009 8:00P
Tokyo Suntory Hall- Solo Concert Tokyo
Dec 16 2009 8:00P
Sendai Culture Concert Hall- Solo Concert Sendai
Dec 17 2009 8:00P
Niigata Music Hall- Solo Concert Niigata
Dec 18 2009 8:00P
Kurashiki Art Culture Hall- Solo Concert Kurashiki
Dec 24 2009 8:00P
Tokyo Sumida Triphony Hall with New Japan Philharmonic Tokyo
Jan 28 2010 8:00P
Highline Ballroom- Solo Concert New York, New York
Feb 3 2010 8:00P
Scullers Jazz Club- Solo Concert Boston, Massachusetts
Feb 5 2010 8:00P
Barns at Wolftrap- Solo Concert Vienna, Virginia
Feb 20 2010 8:00P
Black Box Theater/Flynn Center- Solo Concert Burlington, Vermont
Feb 27 2010 8:00P
Walton Arts Center- Solo Concert Fayetteville, Arkansas
Mar 4 2010 8:00P
Jazz Showcase- Solo Concert Chicago, Illinois
Mar 5 2010 8:00P
Jazz Showcase- Solo Concert Chicago, Illinois
Mar 6 2010 8:00P
Jazz Showcase- Solo Concert Chicago, Illinois
Mar 7 2010 8:00P
Jazz Showcase- Solo Concert Chicago, Illinois
Mar 8 2010 8:00P
Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mar 9 2010 8:00P
Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mar 19 2010 8:00P
Detroit Institute of Arts- Solo Concert Detroit, Michigan
Mar 20 2010 8:00P
SF Jazz- Solo Concert San Francisco, California
Jul 31 2010 8:00P
Marciac Jazz Festival Marciac
Aug 1 2010 8:00P
Marciac Jazz Festival Marciac
Aug 2 2010 8:00P
Marciac Jazz Festival Marciac
Aug 3 2010 8:00P
Marciac Jazz Festival Marciac
Aug 4 2010 8:00P
Marciac Jazz Festival Marciac
Sep 23 2010 8:00P
Pruis Hall- Ball State University Muncie, Indiana
Sep 24 2010 8:00P
Hatfield Hall Theater Terre Haute, Indiana
Sep 25 2010 8:00P
Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Cmty Ctr. New Albany, Indiana

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   About Hiromi

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.

The initial buzz – critical and commercial – triggered by Another Mind in North America traveled all the way back to her native Japan, where the album shipped gold (100,000 units) and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan’s (RIAJ) Jazz Album of the Year Award. And yet, for as high-impact as Hiromi’s debut may have been, it was just the beginning of a fascinating musical journey that has continued to gather momentum in the years since.

Her 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. She continued her winning streak with the release of Time Control in 2007 and Beyond Standard in 2008. Both releases featured Sonicbloom, her hand-picked supergroup that included guitarist Dave “Fuze” Fiuczynski, bassist Tony Grey and drummer Martin Valihora.

Her output in 2009 has been extensive. She appears on Chick Corea’s Duet, a two-disc live recording of a performance in Tokyo with pianist and mentor Chick Corea. Released in February on Concord, Duet is a collaboration by two artists from separate generations and cultures who transcend all boundaries to converse with each other with exuberance and passion. She also appeared on bassist Stanley Clarke’s Jazz in the Garden, a May release on Heads Up International. Jazz in the Garden – which also features drummer Lenny White – is Clarke’s first foray into straightahead jazz, and the synergy resulting from all three of these luminaries makes for one of the most refreshing Stanley Clarke recordings in recent years.

In June 2009, she simultaneously released two concert DVDs, both recorded in Tokyo: Hiromi Live in Concert (recorded in December 2005) and Hiromi’s Sonicbloom Live in Concert (recorded in December 2007). The former features the rhythm section of Grey and Valihora, while the latter includes Fiuczynski incendiary fretwork – the perfect foil for Hiromi’s high-energy keyboard attack.

Hiromi scales back to the solo piano setting – but sacrifices none of her innate energy or passion in the process – with her latest album, A Place To Be. Set for Japanese release in September 2009 and U.S. release in January 2010, A Place To Be is a musical travel journal of the many places around the world that have left an indelible impression on her creative sensibilities.

“Some places have such a special vibe,” she says of her extensive travels over the past several years. “Sometimes a melody emerges in and around a place without me having to think about it at all. I can just walk down the street and I hear it. I’m always thinking about composing, and always trying to find what parts of the world around me can be musical. Sometimes it just comes to me in a beautiful moment.”

This openness to the vibrations of her surroundings is nothing new for Hiromi. Born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1979, she took her first piano lessons at age six. She learned from her earliest piano 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,” she says of that first 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 came to the United States in 1999 to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, an environment that pushed the limits of her artistic sensibilities 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 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.”

Hiromi’s new album, A Place To Be, is more than just a chronicle of the many places around the globe where she has performed. Recorded just days before her thirtieth birthday in March 2009, it also represents a personal milestone. “I wanted to record the sound of my twenties for archival purposes,” she says. “I felt like the people whom I met on the road during my twenties really helped me develop and mature as a musician and as a person. So in addition to making a record that represented all of these places that have inspired my music, I also wanted it to be a thank-you to those people. I feel very fortunate to have spent this part of my life traveling to all these places and making people happy.”

Part of the personal connection she has established over the years is the result of making music without labels or restrictions. As a matter of principle, she’ll continue to follow whatever moves her – be it a place, a person, an idea or whatever else – 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.”










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g cusano

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Nov 20 2009 4:46 PM

amazing! YEAH!! thank you so much for the add. ciao from roma! :)
Alice Kim Jenkins Pianist/Composer

Alice Kim Jenkins   Pianist/Composer



Nov 20 2009 4:46 PM

Peace & blessings
Máximo de Montemar

Máximo de Montemar



Nov 20 2009 4:46 PM

Thanks for your friendship.

Best wishes from Spain!
iverson

iverson



Nov 20 2009 4:46 PM

ひろみさん昨日のj-waveの番組は大変面白かったです。俺も自分の音楽に命賭けてるつもりなんで、もしよかったら聞いてください。で感想も貰えると嬉しいです、ではまた。
Ryuichi Sky

Ryuichi Sky



Nov 20 2009 4:39 PM

You're going to be here Kochi again!
Thanks in advance:) We'll be waiting for you.

いろんな音楽聴くので新聞で新譜のリリースを知りました。
これから買いに行って聴きます!ライブも楽しみです。
Paul

Paul Barker Hemings



Nov 20 2009 4:39 PM

Hurrah, Place to be arrived yesterday! No customs
bill.
Great music , no definite faves yet But...
Sicilian Blue here is very different. I saw you live in Milano playing Pachelbels Canon and here the disc version is no dissappointment when compared. Tune "Place to Be" is going to be a classic. This CD is a big step for you. It will work .Congratulations and thanks for the lovely music

BTW the DVD is a heart wrencher.
Kay Wegner

Kay Wegner



Nov 20 2009 4:37 PM

Hey Hiromi,
thx & big respect to you and your band!
Your compositions are ingenious!
Kay
Leo’s Trio

Leo’s Trio



Nov 20 2009 4:17 PM

Thanks for the add... Interestiing stuff!
Leo's Trio
Francesco

Francesco



Nov 20 2009 4:17 PM

Thanks for the friendship.
All the best from New York City.
Francesco.

francesco212.com

Check out my new video for "I Want More"

Сергей Краснопольский

Сергей Краснопольский



Nov 20 2009 4:17 PM

speed of wonderland
JP--> CompleXx!!

JP--> CompleXx!!



Nov 20 2009 4:17 PM

Heej Hiromi,

I really love your music,
good luck with the new album!!
Arkady Michalik

Arkady Michalik



Nov 20 2009 4:17 PM

Jazzy Greatings From Silesia in Poland (Europe).
Hold warm and keep swingin.
Arkady Michalik
http://www.arkadymichalik.republika.pl
James Chia

James Chia



Nov 20 2009 4:17 PM

You're amazing Hiromi, come to Sydney!
..Maky..

..Maky..



Nov 20 2009 4:17 PM

Hiromi you are the greatest artist of the world!!!!!! *-*
Arkady Michalik

Arkady Michalik



Nov 20 2009 4:17 PM

Jazzy Greatings From Silesia in Poland (Europe).

Hold warm and keep swingin.

Arkady Michalik

http://www.arkadymichalik.republika.pl
Man In The Mountain

Martin Kornick



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

Chicago, yeah! :)
Crystina Maez

Crystina Maez



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

May you have your feet on the ground, your heart in the stars and clarity in your mind.
Gianfranco Becucci

Gianfranco Becucci



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

GREAT MUSIC!GOOD MUSIC...
minolyu

minolyu



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

Thanx for the friendship again!!!
Hope u having a ecstatic music life!!!
NOctamblues

NOctamblues



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

Thanks and welcome on this
little Jazz corner on the web .!
Great work ..!
Cheers from France
JB
BIRTHRIGHT

BIRTHRIGHT



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

C'mon....drag the band to Phoenix!!!
dimitris

dimitris dimitris



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

Check out my profile And Let me know Do you like me YES or NO http://www.doulike.us/photos/1534536.html?b=4&w=46
Walkizon

Walkizon KEITH



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

Check out my profile And Let me know Do you like me YES or NO http://www.doulike.us/photos/3521280.html?b=4&w=46
Gianfranco Becucci

Gianfranco Becucci



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

thanks for the add.good music(and yours is a great music!!)
JON ROMERO Y AMANECER

JON ROMERO Y AMANECER



Nov 20 2009 3:42 PM

HIROMI! WE LOVE YOU AND YOUR MUSIC! WE ARE FROM DENVER, COLORADO USA "THE MILE HIGH CITY"!
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