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Recorded
  
March 20–21, 2009

Place to Be (2009)
  
Voice (2011)

Release date
  
2 September 2009

Length
  
65:02

Artist
  
Hiromi

Genres
  
Jazz, Post-bop

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Released
  
September 5, 2009 (JPN) January 26, 2010 (USA)

Label
  
Telarc International Corporation

Similar
  
Beyond Standard, Voice, Another Mind, Spiral, Brain

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Place to Be is a solo album by jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara. The album features eight original compositions plus two covers which are intended to musically describe Hiromi's travels around the world.

Contents

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Music

Although most of the album is played in a post-bop style, it has classical and ragtime influences. She has been acclaimed for her technique “as the album confirms her audacious self-assurance and technical command”.

Track listing

All tracks written and composed by Hiromi Uehara, except "Berne, Baby, Berne!" (written and composed by Louie Bellson and Remo Palmier), and "Pachelbel's Canon" (written and composed by Johann Pachelbel).

  1. BQE (5:57)
  2. Choux à la Crème (5:30)
  3. Sicilian Blue (8:27)
  4. Berne, Baby, Berne! (2:57)
  5. Somewhere (5:39)
  6. Cape Cod Chips (5:42)
  7. Island Azores (4:30)
  8. Pachelbel's Canon (5:23)
  9. Viva! Vegas: Show City, Show Girl (3:57)
  10. Viva! Vegas: Daytime in Las Vegas (4:30)
  11. Viva! Vegas: The Gambler (5:38)
  12. Place to Be (6:42)
  13. Green Tea Farm (4:08) (Bonus track)

Personnel

  • Hiromi Uehara - Piano
  • Akiko Yano - Voice (Track 13)
  • Songs

    1BQE5:57
    2Choux à la crème5:29
    3Sicilian Blue8:27

    References

    Place to Be Wikipedia