Hiromi Uehara
Jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara has received worldwide recognition since her debut in 2003 with "Another Mind", which was a critical success in North America and in her native Japan, where the album shipped gold (100,000 units) and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan’s (RIAJ) Jazz Album of the Year Award. In 2009, she recorded with pianist Chick Corea "Duet", a two-disc live recording of their transcendent, transgenerational and transcultural duo concert in Tokyo. She also appeared on bassist Stanley Clarke’s Heads Up International release, Jazz in the Garden, which also featured former Chick Corea bandmate, drummer Lenny White. In 2011 Hiromi started her piano trio project, The Trio Project with Anthony Jackson and Simon Phillips and has released four albums under the name of this project. Recently not only does she play with jazz musicians but also she collaborates with notable J-pop musicians and bands and orchestras such as Akiko Yano, Dreams Come True, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, and New Japan Philharmonic.