Just found this on Youtube. Hiromi Trio Project Live in 2011 with Steve Smith on drums. Really great if you love Steve Smith, here he is in all his glory playing with Hiromi.
I actually saw this tour, it was the start of Hiromi's first Trio Project Tour and Simon Phillips was not available until a month or so into the tour. So Smith filled in. This was the last really great Hiromi show I saw. I like how she re-worked classic Hiromi material into the trio format. And I think Steve Smith is a better fit than Simon in some ways, in that he doesn't over-power her, or sound too much like a drum clinic. Hiromi is the main attraction here, and in recent shows I have seen with Simon, it's hard to tell who is the headliner as he often drowns Hiromi out.
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