Hiromi: The Most Electrifying Pianist Alive

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  @HiromiOfficial · 11 months ago

  Thank you so much for having me on! 💜

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• LE

  @lessismore4470 · 11 months ago

  Despite what's happening in the world, Rick Beato continues with his campaign for human sensibility, human imagination and inventiveness. Please don't stop. Greetings from Poland.

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• RI

  @richarddunbar8662 · 11 months ago

  It's amazing that people like this exist.

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• NI

  @NickPaletta · 10 months ago

  This is my dream come true. Seen her 16 times since 2003. First time I accidentally bought a "pre show" ticket and I ended up in a classroom with 20 people. She walks in and starts banging on the piano and played 3 songs. Then my phone got a text that was the tmobile (da da da dee da). She played it a millisecond later and the room laughed. Then she took our questions. I asked her how she makes fusion out of classical, jazz, funk. She replied saying she loves Frank Zappa and composers like Chopin, and started to play a Chopin bass line and then she said, and then I swing it. And then I improvise. She took a Chopin bassline, swung it and then blew us away by improvising on top. I was a music major at Columbia College Chicago when this happened and im still pinching myself. It was her sonicbloom band that was like watching aliens. Saw her trio band too. Ive seen all her bands. Even 5 nights in a row in a stl jazz club with just her and Stanley Clarke acoustic. Mind blowing and the most grateful fly on a wall that could ever exist.

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• PO

  @PolyQuasi · 11 months ago

  I think the piano is happy

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• CH

  @cheepseats1 · 11 months ago

  Joy. Intelligence. Inquisitiveness. Creativity. Respect. Humility. Insane chops ... the hour spent watching this reaffirms faith in humanity. Thank you to you both.

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• YA

  @yazidmanou9371 · 11 months ago (edited)

  What a pleasant surprise to discover Hiromi on Rick's show ! I am still very proud to be her French publicist, a role I have held since 2009. She is an exceptional musician, dazzling to hear and watch perform. She truly deserves recognition, and her talent deserves greater exposure. Thank you very much, Rick 🙏

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  @OtobokeGaijin6218 · 8 months ago (edited)

  Hiromi&apos;s references. She mentions several musicians more than once, but only the first mention is listed. Some references are identified by caption in the vdo, but most aren&apos;t.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=58">0:58</a> &nbsp;Erroll Garner&apos;s 1955 album &quot;Concert by the Sea&quot;, the Oscar Peterson Trio&apos;s 1964 album &quot;We Get Requests&quot;<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=122">2:02</a> &nbsp;J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, the Jackson 5, Al Jarreau<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=172">2:52</a> &nbsp;Martha Argerich, Vladimir Horowitz<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=265">4:25</a> &nbsp;&quot;Hanon&quot; (referring to the book of piano exercises---&quot;The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises&quot;---by Charles-Louis Hanon)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=392">6:32</a> &nbsp;&quot;Days of Wine and Roses&quot; (on the Oscar Peterson Trio&apos;s album &quot;We Get Requests&quot;)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=421">7:01</a> &nbsp;Hamamatsu<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=431">7:11</a> &nbsp;Yamaha (maker of music instruments and audio equipment; Hiromi is a product of the Yamaha Music School system, as are quite a few Japanese musicians, and her piano teacher, whom she often talks about, was Noriko Hikida; Hiromi also had composition, or theory, classes at the school)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=470">7:50</a> &nbsp;Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=480">8:00</a> &nbsp;Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=511">8:31</a> &nbsp;1989 album &quot;Chick Corea Akoustic Band&quot;, and band members John Patitucci and Dave Weckl<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=521">8:41</a> &nbsp;1996 album &quot;Chick Corea Akoustic Band -- Live From The Blue Note Tokyo&quot;, and its drummer Vinnie Colaiuta<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=529">8:49</a> &nbsp;Herbie Hancock&apos;s 1998 album &quot;Gershwin&apos;s World&quot;<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=532">8:52</a> &nbsp;Keith Jarrett Trio&apos;s 1995 album &quot;Standards in Norway&quot;<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=767">12:47</a> &nbsp;Charles Lloyd<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=850">14:10</a> &nbsp;Oscar Peterson Trio&apos;s 1963 album &quot;Night Train&quot;<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=879">14:39</a> &nbsp;Michel Petrucciani<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=1121">18:41</a> &nbsp;Frédéric Chopin&apos;s Étude Op. 25 No. 4.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=1485">24:45</a> &nbsp;&quot;Solar&quot; (Chuck Wayne and Miles Davis), &quot;Dolphin Dance&quot; (Herbie Hancock), &quot;Humpty Dumpty&quot; (Chick Corea)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=1514">25:14</a> &nbsp;Hiromi&apos;s Sonicwonder&apos;s 2025 album &quot;Out There&quot;, and Adam O&apos;Farrill, Hadrien Feraud, Gene Coye, members of Hiromi&apos;s Sonicwonder<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=1825">30:25</a> &nbsp;Frank Zappa<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=1836">30:36</a> &nbsp;George Duke<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=1852">30:52</a> &nbsp;Stanley Clarke<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2245">37:25</a> &nbsp;Steve Smith<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2251">37:31</a> &nbsp;&quot;Takita takita . . .&quot; (bol/konnakol units, vocalizations of the rhythm patterns of North/South Indian classical music)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2272">37:52</a> &nbsp;Anthony Jackson, Simon Phillips (first mentioned by Rick)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2520">42:00</a> &nbsp;Wayne Shorter<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2533">42:13</a> &nbsp;Gary Burton<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2700">45:00</a> &nbsp;Edmar Castañeda<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2714">45:14</a> &nbsp;&quot;Ping-pongs&quot; (referring to the back-and-forth between the musicians in her band)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2756">45:56</a> &nbsp;Sergei Rachmaninoff<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2786">46:26</a> &nbsp;Ahmad Jamal (who was a mentor to Hiromi when she studied in the U.S.)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2860">47:40</a> &nbsp;Phineas Newborn<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=2951">49:11</a> &nbsp;Bösendorfer (piano manufacturer; first mentioned by Rick)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=3233">53:53</a> &nbsp;&quot;Gravy Waltz&quot; (on the Oscar Peterson Trio&apos;s 1962 album &quot;Affinity&quot;)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcKd9OkMPcc&amp;t=3398">56:38</a> &nbsp;&quot;Blackbird&quot; (the Beatles)<br>Additionally Rick mentions Art Tatum, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Wynton Kelly, Red Garland, &quot;Jesu, Joy of Man&apos;s Desiring&quot; (Bach, which Hiromi plays a little of), and &quot;Moment&apos;s Notice&quot; (Coltrane).

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  @SRBee54 · 11 months ago

  Even though Ms. Hiromi is the featured guest, I must compliment Rick on his depth of knowledge of music AND people in his interview. &nbsp;His questions are so perfect to invoke her responses. &nbsp; Mr. Beato is a treasure! &nbsp;Without him, no one is recording these virtuosos’ experiences, opinions, anecdotes and thoughts. &nbsp;<br><br>Additionally, the channel’s production standards are world class. &nbsp;Bravo Rick.

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• JJ

  @jjmsj · 11 months ago

  Hiromi is one of the greatest modern pianists today!

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• CR

  @CraigMansfield · 10 months ago

  I like how she&apos;s technically brilliant but she still has soul

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  @ThomasDeBobes-d1i · 13 days ago

  Hey Rick. Thank you so much for this brilliant interview with a stunningly talented musician. Aside from the obvious fact that she is other worldly in her talent, her thought process on musicians such as Oscar Peterson or Errol Garner was absolutely eye opening. I very rarely would sit and listen to an interview for 65 minutes consecutively. I was completely engaged listening to both her playing and her thought process and insights. I really wish that I had come across her a month or two ago, as I saw that she just played the Blue Note in NYC. I would have loved to have seen her “live”. <br><br>In addition, I love how you asked her to explain some of the terms she used. Most really talented artists that I have listened &nbsp;to over the last 55+ years understand and appreciate the artists that have come before them. They don’t try to replicate those artists, but rather understand that perhaps they could do things themselves that they may not have thought possible previously. <br><br>I have sent this to several friends, and each of <br>them were so impressed and thankful that I shared it with them.

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