Bass Nation

I just discovered an amazing artist the other day. Hiromi Uehara is a 29 year old pianist from Japan, Berklee School of Music Grad, and jazz fusion phenomenon. She played with Chick Corea when she was 17 and the two of them just recorded an album called Duet. I know that fusion is one of those musical genres that people tend to feel very passionate about. They either love it or hate it while very few are indifferent to it. Hiromi typically tours with a trio of herself, a bassist and drummer. She’s got a synth sitting on top of a grand piano and she rocks the shit out of both of them while her band is just ridiculously tight, playing insanely fast over all sorts of odd time signatures. Here’s the YouTube clip that got me hooked, Return of the Kung Fu World Champion. More clips after the jump.

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