Yeah. So the story behind that concert was that Hiromi met Edmar at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2016, and immediately knew that they shared the same kind of "musical language". After that she contacted him and they got together and played several shows, and then in 2017 they came back to the Jazz Festival to play a concert together to commemorate where they met.
I've been a big Hiromi fan for a while now, and I was absolutely ecstatic when I found out that my girlfriend got us tickets to see her. I had no idea who Edmar was, and I looked him up and instantly knew that they were going to put on a crazy show. I actually spent a lot of time there with my eyes closed just listening to them. We were like 8 rows back or something, but off to the far right (there were actually 3 less rows on this side, so 5 rows from the beginning of the rows on the side we were on I think.) The venue itself was actually not that large, so it had a surprisingly intimate atmosphere.
Hiromi ALWAYS looks like she's having an absolute blast.... except on a recording of Place to Be shortly after Oscar Peterson died (ok, so she doesn't exactly look like she's having a bad time per se, but it's unusual to see her looking anything other than absolutely ecstatic). I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I think Place to Be was written as a tribute to him shortly before he died. There's 2 or 3 videos of her playing it shortly after he died where you can see her actually crying as she plays. The song starts out sounding quite sad, but you quickly realize that it's actually more bittersweet, because there are moments of pure unbridled joy in her playing in that song as well.
