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Hiromi and the Trio Project
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WHEN I first heard the Japanese pianist Hiromi live, in the Royal Festival Hall at the London Jazz Festival in November, it was as if a hurricane had hit the keys, with her hands traversing them with so much speed that her arms were a blur like some dazzling impressionist image.
And out of this came so much sound, with her contrabass guitarist, the New Yorker Anthony Jackson, laying down such a pulsating, succulent beat and her London drummer Simon Phillips within the mental compound of his steelworks of cymbals crashing and booming his message through the air of that most formal of venues.
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