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Hiromi: Place To Be
by Jeff Winbush
Some musicians take the tortured artist thing too far. With their on-stage, “in the zone" demeanor, some pianists look as if they're on the verge of a heart attack. If they relaxed a bit would anyone think less of them? Hiromi Uehara is certainly a serious musician yet never leaves the impression of taking herself too ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 8, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 246 224 +22 6 59 1 5 2 — — Gil Scott-Heron I’m New Here (XL) 223 — +223 35 36 2 1 3 2 22 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 221 210 +11 ...
The Jazz Session #142: Hiromi
Pianist Hiromi Uehara spends a lot of time on the road, traveling from gig to gig, from hotel to hotel, from city to city and country to country. Her new CD, Place To Be (Telarc, 2010), pays tribute to many of the places shes visited. In this interview, Hiromi talks about life on the road; her ...
Manami Morita: Colors
by Ian Patterson
The cover of Color, pianist Manami Morita's debut recording as leader, is a mosaic of child-like drawings, all round shapes and primary colors. It's somehow a reflection of her music which is unselfconsciously joyous and optimistic. There are few shades and little introspection in her playing, only boldness and, like the colors of nature, harmony. The ...
Jazz Pianist Hiromi Travels Light on Her New Solo Album
By Tad Hendrickson About a month ago, I reviewed an Oscar Peterson tribute that took place at Carnegie Hall. It was a night of wonderful music from pianists Kenny Baron, Roger Kellaway and Hiromi Uehara in solo performances. The darling of the night was the Japanese lady who came off as a sort of jazz artist ...
Solo Female Pianists: Capsizing Moments, The Art of the Piano, Woven Time, Place To Be
by Ivana Ng
Sophie Agnel Capsizing Moments Emanem Records 2009 Jessica Williams The Art of the Piano Origin Records 2009 Katharina Weber Woven Time Intakt Records 2009
Hiromi Chronicles Her World Travels on Her First Solo Piano Recording
Place To Be set for release on January 26, 2010 If all the world is indeed a stage, pianist-composer Hiromi Uehara has played on just about every corner of it. Since the beginning of the decade, she has supported her impressive body of studio work with an ambitious tour schedule that has electrified audiences throughout the ...
Three Jazz Pianists Pay Tribute to Oscar Peterson
By Tad Hendrickson Oscar Peterson will always be remembered as one of jazz's greatest pianists thanks to an indelible career that spanned seven decades. An artist of prodigious technique, Peterson was influenced by the great Art Tatum, turning the stride master's voracious style into something workable for bebop. One of the most-recorded pianists in jazz history, ...
Jazz Fest: 2010 Lineup/Dates
PEARL JAM, MMJ, CROWES, WSP, ARETHA AND MORE! Jazz Fest '09 by Adam McCullough The usual dizzying assortment of musical talent will descend on New Orleans for the 41st New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The first weekend takes place April 23-25, 2010, and the second week is April 29-May 2, 2010. The lineups thus far ...
Stanley Clarke Trio: Live at Catalina's
by Carl L. Hager
Stanley Clarke TrioCatalina Bar and GrillHollywood, CAOctober 7, 2009 When bassist Stanley Clarke gathered drummer Lenny White and piano phenom Hiromi together last December to do his first-ever trio album, Jazz In The Garden (Telarc, 2009), no one knew quite what to expect. Hiromi was clearly a ...
