Hiromi Uehara

Another group that my friend Butchko made me aware of: this is Hiromi Uehara and her quartet called Hiromi's Sonicbloom playing songs from their album Time Control. In the tradition of all the great jazz pianists, she gets very, well, into her music and ends up looking pretty silly.

Seriously though, she is an absolutely fantastic pianist with a great band behind her. Her Wiki page that she met Chick Corea at a young age and was tutored by Ahmad Jamal at Berklee, and boy does it show. Well worth a listen.