By chance, on Utube, I came across this fantastic jazz pianist just about two days ago.
It is strange that this should happen just when Dave Brubeck should die. I had Dave's LPs in the sixties but moved away from listening to jazz to listening to classic piano.
Now this pianist reminds me of all my happy days. It is if I'm back on the beach with my kids and our Dalmation dog running in the waves!
listen espcially to her playing Johann Pachebel's cannon in D.

I agree. She is a great pianist.
I find this pretty inspiring, amazing the way it builds, and rank it in the top 10:

Yes indeed, she is great, just started listening to her some months back too. Glad she is alive.

I agree she's a great pianist but I'm afraid the example above is not very representative of her jazz, which is more of an intense classical virtuoso with an incredible groove, than of this (sorry) romantic soup of "the haze".

If you listen to her records you'll hear as well, extremely well played and compose, in a classical way that's well perfect.

I'd watch this instead :

(starting at 11'00'' she's playing one of her own composition if you want to pass on Gershwins)

"In a silent way" could well apply to the the bass in this piece! IMHO the bass kills this otherwise interesting study, which I think is aptly named. The second time I listened to it I tuned out most of the base and really enjoyed it.

Sorry, I should have made the point that I was refering to the piece named HAZE.

the next Mulgrew Miller - NOT!

I wanted to express the same as I am in agreement with you, Silent Way. My current favorite is the Viva Vegas suite,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhUn9BEN3Mk&noredirect=1

I fell in love with Hiromi's playing on YouTube - incredible chops, very inventive, charismatic - especially what she did with amazing solo versions of "I've Got Rhythm" and "Pachelbel's Canon."

So I was really looking forward to catching her live at SF Jazz a few months ago. Unfortunately, the concert was so bad I left at intermission. I sensed there might be trouble when I saw the humongous drum kit on stage.

Sure enough, every tune was very loud jazz rock as Hiromi and the bassist amped and banged it up to be heard over the drummer, who was whacking the heck out of the skins and cymbals. It was a lot of sound and fury, signifying pretty much nothing.

I'd only attend a Hiromi concert if she was playing solo.

Did you stay long enough to see me? I came on at the intermission, and left right afterwards.

I think Hiromi is wonderful, she's one of the annointed players that arrives young and is here to bring us great music..Chick has a lightning rod for these annointed folks (being one himself..

Dave Frank