Review of Hiromi and Edmar Castaneda: Live In Montreal

Hiromi and Edmar Castaneda: Live In Montreal

Edmar Castaneda | Hiromi Uehara

Telarc

Rating: ★★★

Hiromi and Castaneda are musical soul brother and sister: each has a ridiculous facility on their instrument, each has the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017

Review of Hiromi: Spark

Hiromi: Spark

Anthony Jackson | Hiromi | Simon Phillips

Telarc

Rating: ★★★★

Hiromi continues her spectacular and spectacularly loud partnership with Jackson and Phillips on another recording reflecting her big bold sound....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2016

Review of Hiromi: Spectrum

Hiromi: Spectrum

Hiromi

Telarc

Rating: ★★★

Hiromi has promised a solo release every decade, so here's the follow-up to Place to Be. Then, as now, her...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Review of Hiromi & Hiromi’s Sonicwonder: Sonicwonderland

Hiromi & Hiromi’s Sonicwonder: Sonicwonderland

Adam O’Farrill | Gene Coye | Hadrien Feraud | Hiromi | Oli Rockberger

Concord

Rating: ★★★

As Herbie Hancock showed on ‘Chameleon’, a synth can create deep, in the pocket grooves on the simplest of riffs....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2023

Review of Hiromi: The Trio Project: Alive

Hiromi: The Trio Project: Alive

Anthony Jackson | Hiromi | Simon Phillips

Telarc

Rating: ★★★

Crueller critics may dismiss Hiromi as a ‘stunt’ pianist, blessed with an extraordinary technique that can express a boggling array...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2014

Review of Hiromi: Silver Lining Suite

Hiromi: Silver Lining Suite

Hiromi Urehara | Meguna Naka | Sohei Birmann | Tatsuo Nishie | Wataru Mukai

Concord CJA00538

Rating: ★★★★

If anyone was going to come out fighting against the pandemic it was bound to be Hiromi Urehara. With the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2021

Review of Hiromi: Move

Hiromi: Move

Alex Garnett | Ed Richardson | Leo Richardson | Rick Simpson | Tim Thornton

Ubuntu Music

Rating: ★★★★

Although Hiromi's released numerous albums, they’ve nearly all been discrete pieces of work; solo, duets (with mentor Corea) or with...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2019

Review of Volker Kriegel: Spectrum

Volker Kriegel: Spectrum

Hiromi

Telarc

Rating: ★★★

Recorded when he was just 27-years-old and enjoying considerable crossover success as a member of the Dave Pike Set, German...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Review of Q3: Spider Dance

Q3: Spider Dance

Lenox Music

Rating: ★★★

Led by piano/keys man Martin Hallmark, Q3 is a breezy UK-based fusion trio taking their cue from Chick Corea, Bob...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Review of Various Artists: Oscar, With Love

Various Artists: Oscar, With Love

Audrey Morris | Benny Green | Bill Charlap | Chick Corea | Dave Young | Gerald Clayton | Hiromi | Justin Kauflin | Kenny Barron | Lance Anderson

Editor's Choice

Two Lions Records

Rating: ★★★★

This impressive array of pianistic talent was selected by Oscar Peterson's widow Kelly to create a kind of musical festschrift,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2018

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