Jazz Articles about Hiromi

About Hiromi

Album Review

Listening to "XYZ," the opener on 23-year old pianist Hiromi’s debut, Another Mind, is like taking a sucker punch. You never see it coming and it knocks the breath out of you. "XYZ" is a cross between "Giant Steps" and "In America" taken at light speed. This diminutive young woman has anything but a diminutive sound or vision. About the time you catch your breath, Hiromi introduces the tour de force "Double Personality" with Dave Fiuczynski on guitar and Jim ...

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Hiromi: Another Mind

Read "Another Mind" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 2, 2003

Is there any hype out there about pianist Hiromi? There should be--she's a major new talent, brimming with originality and musical joy.From the opening notes of the first trio cut, "XYZ," it's obvious that something special is going on here. Hiromi Uehara has a million stories, and she tells them with all her heart and soul. There is a brash urgency in "XYZ"; but with Hiromi, perhaps brash is too harsh a word. It seems more the ebullient ...

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Album Review

Hiromi: Another Mind

Read "Another Mind" reviewed by Phil DiPietro

by Phil DiPietro
April 3, 2003

The bulk of my efforts here have focused on revealing some incredibly talented musicians who operate outside the bounds of the “conventional" music business (read: without benefit of major label clout) due to a plethora of barriers. It's a pleasure to be reporting on a new arrival that exhibits so much talent, so much potential, that barriers merely fall away before her in the face of them. Such is the force that is Hiromi. And yes, she most decidedly is ...