Aisha HR NYC Trio

Aisha HR NYC Trio: A-Symmetry

by Chris May
April 30, 2006

Still barely known outside her native Italy, Aisha HR's debut album announces the arrival an arresting young pianist in the Bill Evans/Herbie Hancock lineage. One of the finalists in an Italian piano competition presided over by Enrico Pieranunzi, HR (formerly Ruggieri) came to jazz following extensive classical training in Amsterdam, Rome and Venice.

In the US, where she now spends some of her time, HR is something of a mentoree of New York-based pianist David Hazeltine, who produced A-Symmetry and ...