(Fusion, Post-Bop, Piano, Experimental) Hiromi (Uehara) - Voice (The Trio Project feat. Anthony Jackson and Simon Phillips) {Telarc TEL-32819-02, USA} - 2011, FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

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REM GENRE Jazz
REM DATE 2011
REM DISCID 800F7709
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PERFORMER "Hiromi"
TITLE "Voice"
FILE "Hiromi - Voice.flac" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Voice"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Flashback"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 01 09:13:35
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Now Or Never"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 01 17:52:54
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Temptation"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 00 24:07:02
    INDEX 01 24:09:49
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Labyrinth"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 00 31:59:22
    INDEX 01 32:04:27
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Desire"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 01 39:44:72
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Haze"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 00 47:01:48
    INDEX 01 47:04:58
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Delusion"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 00 52:54:31
    INDEX 01 52:58:65
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8, Pathetique"
    PERFORMER "Hiromi"
    INDEX 00 60:41:68
    INDEX 01 60:46:01

Pianist and composer Hiromi Uehara was born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1979. At the age of six she started playing piano. Within a year, she was a student of the Yamaha School of Music, whose progressive approach to musical training allowed the young student to shape her technical skills, writing, and performing. After relocating to the United States in 1999, she continued her studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, where she received a full scholarship. It was there that Hiromi developed her varied musical taste, encompassing everyone from J.S. Bach to Sly & the Family Stone. While at Berklee, she also had the opportunity to play with jazz piano legends Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, and her mentor, Ahmad Jamal. In 2003, Hiromi recorded her first disc, Another Mind, on the Telarc label, produced by Jamal. Brain was released a year later, followed by the pianist's third trio album for Telarc, Spiral, in 2006. For her next album, Hiromi augmented her trio with avant-fusion guitarist Dave Fiuczynski, releasing Time Control in early 2007. Beyond Standard, a thematic continuation of Time Control, was also recorded with her Sonicbloom trio and released a year later. The solo piano set Place to Be followed in 2010. ~ Al Campbell

Some jazz musicians aren't documented nearly as much as they should be; one could write a book about all the talented improvisers who made it to 60 or 65 without ever recording an album, or even being featured as a sideman on someone else's album. But Hiromi, thankfully, has been recording frequently ever since she emerged in the early 2000s, and she has been wise enough to record in a variety of settings. Hiromi has recorded unaccompanied, as well as in duos and trios; she has played in both electric groups and acoustic groups, and she has provided straight-ahead post-bop as well as fusion. Voice is best described as an electro-acoustic effort that is more post-bop than fusion but has its rock-influenced moments. Forming a trio with Anthony Jackson on electric bass and Simon Phillips on drums, Hiromi is heard on both acoustic piano and electric keyboards but pays more attention to the former. And while this 2010 recording may not be ideal from the perspective of a rigid jazz purist or a bop snob, Hiromi's outlook is very much the outlook of a jazz improviser; the fact that she, Jackson, and Phillips bring some rock muscle to some of the material doesn't negate that. Hiromi is undeniably imaginative on an intriguing performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minus, Opus 13, aka Sonata Pathétique, which goes back to 1798. Or course, there was no jazz in Beethoven's time; if one agrees that jazz started when cornetist Buddy Bolden formed his first band in New Orleans in 1895, then jazz was a little over 100 years away from being created when Beethoven composed Sonata Pathétique. But Hiromi has no problem bringing Beethoven's piece into the jazz world of the 21st century; she is no less an improviser on Sonata Pathétique than she is on free-spirited originals such as "Labyrinth," "Flashback," "Delusion," and "Now or Never." The Hiromi/Jackson/Phillips trio might display more rock muscle on some tracks than they do on others, but rock muscle or not, this 66-minute CD never loses its jazz mentality. Voice is yet another absorbing effort from this capricious acoustic pianist/electric keyboardist. ~ Alex Henderson