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Hiromi - The Trio Project: Move
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ci sono dischi che per essere pienamente apprezzati, pur essendo fatti a brani, devono suonare da capo a fondo. In passato questi lavori si chiamavano concept album o opere a programma. La trentaquattrenne Hiromi Uehara è una pianista e compositrice che ammette le sue numerose influenze, tutte inequivocabilmente di musicisti ultravirtuosi (da Franz Listz a Chick Corea - specie sui tempi latini-, dai King Krimson ai Dream Theatre), le quali producono un cortocircuito che fa emergere tecnica impeccabile, tocco luminoso ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Keyboardist Hiromi once again reaps the benefits of her superstar rhythmic section, drummer Simon Phillips (The Who, Toto, David Gilmour) and contrabassist Anthony Jackson (Paul Simon, Chick Corea, Steely Dan). A largely acoustic set, she yields an action-packed schema, teeming with intricately designed arrangements while zooming in for the kill on many occasions. However, Hiromi's breadth of scope is rather monolithic, since her arrangements are of the whirlwind variety, where nuance, tonal shadings and ballad-like intricacies complement and contrast her ...
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by Jeff Winbush
In a world where the path to commercial success is to play it safe and keep faith in formula, it is only within jazz where being unpredictable is not only a virtue, but an expectation. Hiromi marks her first decade of music-making on her terrific ninth album, Move featuring her Trio Project with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips.Reunited with Jackson and Phillips for a second outing after 2011's superb Voice, (Telarc, 2011) the two veteran musicians ...
Continue ReadingHiromi: Voice
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dalla cartella stampa apprendiamo che la pianista e compositrice Hiromi Uehara ha voluto chiamare questo suo terzo lavoro Voice perché «la voce reale delle persone è espressa nelle loro emozioni». E di emozioni le nove tracce in scaletta ne emanano diverse, grazie soprattutto alla buone combinazioni timbrico/melodiche messe a reagire dal trio, completato da Anthony Jackson al basso e Simon Phillips alla batteria, pronti nel dispensare carezze, ma all'occorrenza anche di mostrare i muscoli. Una combinazione strutturale che esula dal ...
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by Ian Patterson
Hiromi's Voice--her seventh album for Telarc--carries the hallmarks of her previous works: prodigious piano playing, a dash of electro-funk, and strong melodic hooks, served up in a power trio setting. What has changed is the personnel, with Hiromi's rhythm section since' 04 of drummer Martin Valihora and bassist Tony Grey making way for all-rounder Simon Phillips on drums and the innovative Anthony Jackson, on contrabass guitar. Phillips, who impressed most recently on the Trilok Gurtu/NDR Big Band recording 21 Spices ...
Continue ReadingHiromi: The Voice Inside
by Ian Patterson
What is a voice? How much of people's voices are really their own? After all, language acquisition is derived from successful imitation. Artists of all stripes may labor for years to find their true voice and express themselves as they desire. Even the greatest artists go through a process—often painful—of imitation, refinement and, finally, emergence. The young trumpeter Miles Davis of the '40s was a pale shadow of Dizzy Gillespie, before upping anchor and heading off in his own liberating ...
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by Jeff Winbush
If there's no guitar are you playing rock n' roll? If there's no singing does it make any sense to call an album Voice? Sure it does because after all, this is a Hiromi record and, while there is no guitar within earshot, there is plenty of rocking and rolling going on.Voice is not--repeat---not a rock album or a jazz-rock album--or fusion or any other such hybrid. It's a jazz record and the seventh Hiromi album is much ...
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