Results for "Hiromi"

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 8, 2010

February 16, 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 ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #142: Hiromi

February 11, 2010

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Manami Morita: Colors

by Ian Patterson
February 5, 2010

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 ...

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News: Interview

Jazz Pianist Hiromi Travels Light on Her New Solo Album

January 22, 2010

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 ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Solo Female Pianists: Capsizing Moments, The Art of the Piano, Woven Time, Place To Be

by Ivana Ng
January 16, 2010

Sophie Agnel Capsizing Moments Emanem Records 2009 Jessica Williams The Art of the Piano Origin Records 2009 Katharina Weber Woven Time Intakt Records 2009

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News: Recording

Hiromi Chronicles Her World Travels on Her First Solo Piano Recording

January 12, 2010

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 ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Three Jazz Pianists Pay Tribute to Oscar Peterson

December 22, 2009

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, ...

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News: Festival

Jazz Fest: 2010 Lineup/Dates

December 16, 2009

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 ...

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Article: Live Review

Stanley Clarke Trio: Live at Catalina's

by Carl L. Hager
November 1, 2009

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 ...

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Article: Live Review

Stanley Clarke Trio at The Blue Note

by Ernest Barteldes
October 31, 2009

Stanley Clarke Trio Blue Note Jazz Club New York Oct. 13, 2009 Playing before a sold-out crowd on the first of their two-night engagement at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club, the Stanley Clarke Trio got things going with “Three Wrong Notes," a straight-ahead ragtime-inspired tune. The tune ...