hiromi v5 by zeruch on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

So, this is based off a press EPK reference image; it is Hiromi Uehara, who is one of the most impressive piano players I've heard in years and seems to be a rising star.

She can play various styles, and when I first heard her she was doing a kind of dance between aggressive post-bop and a third stream kind of classically influenced chamber-jazz kind of thing. The last few years has had her create a fusion band called Sonicbloom, which includes uber-guitarist Dave "Fuze" Fiuzcynski. It's hyperkinetic genre-bending instrumental madness, which, coupled with her penchant for loud stage dress, makes her a kind of bizarre variant of Bjork on jazz-roids.

Some samples:
[link] (with Chick Corea)
[link] (solo)
[link] (the trio version of Sonicbloom)

acrylic paint, acrylic ink, brush pens, water soluable colored pencil, gouache