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Credits:

Hiromi Uehara

Hiromi Uehara’s long-awaited new solo piano album, her first in 10 years since “Place to Be” (2009), continues her worldwide career. In addition to seven new songs written under the theme of “color,” the album includes covers of “Blackbird” by The Beatles and “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin. The performance features an unprecedentedly beautiful piano sound and an overwhelming sense of scale and depth. The album title track “Spectrum” is a number that was performed in the PR video for “NHK BS4K/BS8K” at the end of 2018. Kaleidoscope” and “Once in a Blue Moon” were used as the opening and ending themes for TV Tokyo’s “New Giants of Beauty,” which started in April. Rhapsody in Various Shades of Blue” is a 22-minute, 46-second epic that incorporates “Rhapsody in Blue” with John Coltrane’s “Blue Train” and The Who’s “Behind Blue Eyes”. This work proves that Hiromi Uehara has reached a higher level as a pianist and arranger, and can be said to be the “masterpiece of her career.The limited first edition includes a 2-disc set with a bonus CD featuring the first recordings of 8 songs from the DVD “Hiromi Uehara Solo Piano Live at Blue Note New York”. First release in Japan.

Tracklisting:

1 KALEIDOSCOPE / HIROMI
2 WHITEOUT / HIROMI
3 YELLOW WURLITZER BLUES / HIROMI
4 SPECTRUM / HIROMI
5 BLACKBIRD / HIROMI
6 MR. C.C. / HIROMI
7 ONCE IN A BLUE MOON / HIROMI
8 RHAPSODY IN VARIOUS SHADES OF BLUE / HIROMI
9 SEPIA EFFECT / HIROMI
1 BQE / HIROMI
2 SICILIAN BLUE / HIROMI
3 CHOUX A LA CREME / HIROMI
4 PACHELBEL’S CANON / HIROMI
5 VIVA! VEGAS SHOW CITY. SHOW GIRL / HIROMI
6 VIVA! VEGAS DAYTIME IN LAS VEGAS / HIROMI
7 VIVA! VEGAS THE GAMBLER / HIROMI
8 PLACE TO BE / HIROMI