It's always nice to meet the actual people who make my own instruments, because you feel the love of people towards the instrument and you have more respect. I feel responsibility when I play it.

On her forthcoming album, Voice, Hiromi flaunts her funk bona fides, getting deep in the pocket with journeymen drummer Simon Phillips and bassist Anthony Jackson. With the reflexes of Keith Jarrett, ...

Hiromi's Voice—her seventh album for Telarc—carries the hallmarks of her previous works: prodigious piano playing, a dash of electro-funk, and strong melodic hooks, served up in a power trio setting.

If there's no guitar are you playing rock n' roll? If there's no singing does it make any sense to call an album Voice? Sure it does because after all, this is a Hiromi record and, while there is no ...

Hard on Gary Burton's heels into Ronnie Scott's next week comes the young Japanese pianist Hiromi, one of jazz's most remarkable keyboard virtuosi. Though she can't resist hurtling through a ...