Hiromi

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Hiromi Uehara was born in Hamamatsu in 1979 and had piano lessons as a child. At seventeen she met Chick Corea in Tokyo, who had her sit in at his concert the next day. She studied at Berklee in Boston, where the pianist Ahmad Jamal noticed her. Her debut Another Mind (2003) was released on the label Telarc. Hiromi plays at great speed and mixes jazz with rock, classical music and electronic sounds. With Chick Corea she made the duet album Duet (2008), and she played in the trio of bassist Stanley Clarke. From 2011 she worked with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips in The Trio Project.

Listening

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  XYZ · Hiromi, 2003
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  Kung-Fu World Champion · Hiromi, 2004
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  Spark · Hiromi, 2016

Discography

Studio albums

• 2003Another Mind
• 2004Brain
• 2005Spiral
• 2007オリヲン座からの招待状 オリジナル・サウンドトラック (soundtrack)
• 2009Place to Be
• 2019Spectrum
• 2021Silver Lining Suite
• 2023BLUE GIANT (soundtrack)
• 2023Sonicwonderland
• 2025OUT THERE
• 2025Page30 (オリジナル・サウンドトラック) (soundtrack)

Other work

• 2008Duet · with Chick Corea
• 2016Spark

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Jazz Map^NL Map
• After Hours: Session 4^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Japanese jazz GenreAfter 2000 the pianist Hiromi became known all over the world.

See also

• Brain
• Spiral
• Japanese jazz
• Fusion and jazz rock