Hiromi Uehara was one-third of The Trio Project, along with Anthony Jackson and Simon Phillips, who made three albums, Move, Alive and Spark, and saw Spark get to number one in the US Billboard Jazz Albums.
Hiromi is in charge of the music for the forthcoming anime Blue Giant and will even play the piano for one of the characters, Yukinori Sawabe.
The feature-length is an adaptation of Shinichi Ishizuka’s Blue Giant manga, and the anime is written by NUMBER 8. NUMBER 8 is the alias of the manga’s editor and the story director of the spin-off Blue Giant Supreme.
Mob Psycho 100’s director Yuzuru Tachikawa is helming, with TOHO animation distributing the anime. It’s due to open on the 17th of February, 2023.
Seven Seas Entertainment have the Engish license to the manga and describes the story;
Miyamoto Dai, a student with a taste for basketball, changes his life the first time he sees a live jazz performance. The incredible music strikes a chord deep inside him, and he immediately decides to dedicate himself to the saxophone. He has no skills, no formal training, and no idea what he’s up against, but his obsession drives him to play that instrument day after day. Will passion be enough to become the player of his dreams? This award-winning manga from Shinichi Ishizuka, compiled into five omnibus volumes for its English debut, is a pitch-perfect drama about the power of music.
Ishizuka’s manga series Blue Giant was launched in Big Comic in 2013 and ended in 2016. It was nominated for the 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Awards and won the Grand Prize in the Manga Division of the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2017. A sequel manga titled Blue Giant Supreme was launched in 2016 and ended in April 2020. A new sequel manga titled Blue Giant Explorer was launched in May 2020.
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