Hiromi Uehara
 

The first fusion jazz pianist/keyboardist I found and damn, this has to be the best modern fusion jazz thing around!

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Re: Hiromi Uehara
 

Yes I doooOOOOoo, amacing! 8)

Yep, she's pretty damn good, but like most Japanese people with real talent she is less famous over here then in other countries.

"If only she'd ress up like a little school girl and blow kisses into the camera" I hear the Japanese TV executives say.... :D

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Well, you have Dir en grey. There doesn't seem to be any schoolgirls around. ?hih.

Bloody hell :shock:

There may not be school girls, but there still is the common market generated Japanese fantasy stuff sprinkled though that clip.

Anyway, I did say "real talent" though Juho.... Not manufactured pretty boys (over 30 and still lving with their mums) who had difficulty joining a boy band, so they decided to follow the record companies sugestion and make a poor, but heavily funded goth-based blood fest.

The amount of bands "built" to fill market needs over real bands being signed can not be beleived in this country. It's all about control and it's so well ingrained into the culture that making people sell out/conform is very easily done. Any foreigner living here for more than a year or two can back me up on this point.