Blues & Beyond #94: Chick Corea and Hiromi Uehara

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Chick Corea and Hiromi Uehara offer sparkling piano duets on a new live album fom Japan

Chick Corea enjoys substantial popularity in Japan. The great pianist was in Japan last year to perform with an exciting young Japanese player, Hiromi Uehara. They did shows at the Blue Note Club in Tokyo in September 2007, and Corea did us the favor of putting out a 2-CD-and-DVD package called "Duet" from those performances. Chick and Hiromi are both great experimenters, and they really click as a duo. We'll hear a couple of the songs from "Duet" in this show. We also have new music from an innovative jazz guitarist from Benin, Lionel Loueke, and from American guitarist Kaki King, and more from Otis Taylor's "Recapturing The Banjo" album in this hour of The Blues & Beyond. Hide full description

Chick Corea enjoys substantial popularity in Japan. The great pianist was in Japan last year to perform with an exciting young Japanese player, Hiromi Uehara. They did shows at the Blue Note Club in Tokyo in September 2007, and Corea did us the favor of putting out a 2-CD-and-DVD package called "Duet" from those performances. Chick and Hiromi are both great experimenters, and they really click as a duo. We'll hear a couple of the songs from "Duet" in this show. We also have new music from an innovative jazz guitarist from Benin, Lionel Loueke, and from American guitarist Kaki King, and more from Otis Taylor's "Recapturing The Ba...
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