Hiromi:The Trio Project feat. Anthony Jackson and Steve Smith

Hiromi Uehara first mesmerized the jazz community with her 2003 Telarc debut, Another Mind. The buzz started by her first album spread all the way back to her native Japan, where Another Mind shipped gold (100,000 units) and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan's (RIAJ) Jazz Album of the Year Award. The keyboardist/ composer's second release, Brain, won the Horizon Award at the 2004 Surround Music Awards, Swing Journal's New Star Award, Jazz Life's Gold Album, HMV Japan's Best Japanese Jazz Album, and the Japan Music Pen Club's Japanese Artist Award .Brain was also named Album of the Year in Swing Journal's 2005 Readers Poll. In 2006, Hiromi won Best Jazz Act at the Boston Music Awards and the Guinness Jazz Festival's Rising Star Award. She also claimed Jazzman of the Year, Pianist of the Year and Album of the Year in Swing Journal Japan's Readers Poll for her 2006 release, Spiral.

Born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1979, Hiromi took her first piano lessons at age six.Hiromi took that intuitive approach a step further when she enrolled in the Yamaha School of Music less then a year after her first piano lessons. By age 12, she was performing in public, sometimes with very high-profile orchestras. By age 14, she played with the Czech Philharmonic.

Further into her teens, her tastes expanded to include jazz as well as classical music. A chance meeting with Chick Corea when she was 17 led to a performance with the well-known jazz pianist the very next day.

After a couple years, Hiromi came to the United States in 1999 to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Among her mentors at Berklee was veteran jazz bassist Richard Evans, who teaches arranging and orchestration. Evans co-produced Another Mind, her Telarc debut, with longtime friend and collaborator Ahmad Jamal, who has also taken a personal interest in Hiromi's artistic development. "She is nothing short of amazing," says Jamal. "Her music, together with her overwhelming charm and spirit, causes her to soar to unimaginable musical heights."

At the 11.Liburnia Jazz Festival Hiromi will announce her new album Voice, which is set for U.S. release in June 2011. Croatian audience will have the special opportunity to hear it just a day after the European premiere at the Olympia Hall in Paris.

Hiromi : The Trio project feat. legendary Anthony Jackson and Steve Smith – jazz satisfaction garanteed!

The Illusions
The illusions, a group playing jazz, jazz rock and funk compositions, has been created by guitarist and composer ANDREJ KARLIK (18 years) in july 2008. in Slovakia, Andrej and his drummer MICHAL FEDOR (18 years) are respected inovators of this genre, even against their young age.
They study on Conservatorium in Košice and Prešov, and in the future they both would like to study music in America.
They performed with the best Slovak jazz musicians like: Martin Valihora (Hiromi Uehara,Lee Ritenour, Anthony Jackson), Michal Bugala(Kendrick Scott,Seamus Blake), Oskar Rózsa, Eugen Vizáry,...
In 2010, DANIEL ŠPINER(piano) and TATIANA HICOVÁ(voice) joined the group.
The band performed on many jazz festivals in Slovakia and Czech Republic for example: Bratislava Jazz days, Prešov jazz days, Znojmo jazz fest,...
Andrej Karlik – guitar Michal Fedor - drums Daniel Špiner - piano Tatiana Hicova - vocal