Time Out (Live)

Hiromi’s Sonicbloom: Hiromi Uehara (piano, synthesizer), David Fiuczynski (electric guitar), Tony Grey (electric bass) and Martin Valihora (drums) playing in Japan (2007). From the album Time Control (2007).

Before finishing her studies, Hiromi Uehara had already been hired by the jazz label Telarc and in 2003 made her recording debut Another Mind, which was very successful both in the United States and Japan, where she received the Recording Industry Association of Japan’s (RIAJ) Jazz Album of the Year Award. Throughout the album Hiromi plays with unusual vitality and incredible stamina, quickly changing style with electric bassist Mitch Cohn and drummer Dave DiCenso, featuring also alto saxophonist Jim Odgren in two track and guitarist David Fiuczynski in another. It was an announcement of the shape jazz was going to take in the future. Then she toured the world several times and took part in the most prestigious jazz festivals along with Cohn and DiCenso.

In 2004 she released Brain with her classmate Tony Gray and Anthony Jackson on electric bass alternating on different themes, and Martin Valihora on drums. In the album she offers a more intimate perspective of her broad musical universe in which she shows again her wealth of styles, including blues, funk and rock, without separating them and creating a unique whole that always bears her signature. With this album she won the HMV Japan’s Best Japanese Jazz Album, the Jazz Life’s Gold Album, the Japan Music Pen Club’s Japanese Artist Award, the Horizon Award, the Swing Journal’s New Star Award and the Album of the Year in Swing Journal’s 2005 Readers Poll.

In 2006 Hiromi launched Spiral only with Gray and Valihora opening unlimited possibilities and exceeding all expectations. As in her two previous works, all the compositions are hers, like the four-part “Music for a Three-Piece Orchestra” suite, in which she provides her followers with an intense listening experience. That same year she won the Best Jazz Act at the Boston Music Awards and the Guinness Jazz Festival’s Rising Star Award, as well as very favorable reviews in The New York Times and magazines such as Keyboard Magazine, Down Beat and JazzTimes since the beginning of her career.