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Shai Maestro

Born: February 5, 1987

Shai Maestro (1987) is one of the most promising and talented pianists of his generation. Since his debut with his own trio in 2011, Shai has shaped a strong and unique personal identity and has portrayed an incredible musical fluidity, making Shai and his band one of the most powerful and harmonious groups in the jazz today. 2018 marked an important year for Shai, signing with major jazz label ECM and recording his first album “The Dream Thief” there, featuring his trio, but also him as a solo-pianist. Introspective, lyrical, virtuosic and differentiated. In its review of ‘The Dream Thief’, All About Jazz spoke of “a searching lyrical atmosphere, emotional eloquence and communal virtuosity that serves the music.” All of which also applies to ‘Human’, Shai’s latest release on ECM, where Maestro’s outgoing, highly-communicative band with fellow Israeli Ofri Nehemya on drums and Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder becomes a quartet with the inspired addition of US trumpeter Philip Dizack

Enlightenment - Solid Waves

By June Yun

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Little Mighty Soul; Solid Waves; Enlightenment; Wherever Dark Takes You There Shall Be Light; You, Whom She Saved.; Light In Your Eyes (Intro); Light In Your Eyes; Light Cycle; Mirrors (Dear 엄마)

The Most Exciting Jazz Albums Since 1969: 2017-2020

by Robert Middleton
December 18, 2023

As we start to wind down to the 72nd jazz thriller, in our penultimate collection of half a dozen jazz thrillers this week, it becomes clear that brilliant, compelling music comes in all shapes and sizes. From an understated quartet from Germany to an Aaron Parks masterpiece, all of these albums deserve a place in the ...

Avishai Cohen Trio al Roma Jazz Festival

by Mario Calvitti
December 1, 2023

Avishai Cohen Trio Roma Jazz Festival Auditorium Parco della Musica Roma 03.11.2023 Altro ritorno importante al Roma Jazz Festival quello del contrabbassista israeliano Avishai Cohen col suo trio, formazione che ha sempre avuto un ruolo importante nei progetti musicali propri o di altri cui ha partecipato, a cominciare dai ...

Take Five with Tulio Araujo

by AAJ Staff
October 16, 2023

Meet Tulio Araujo Tulio is a Brazilian musician, carrying advanced degrees and experience in the fields of Percussion, Music Production and Sound Engineering. He has studied with renowned masters Ian Guest (Hungary), Santiago Reyther (Cuba), Marcos Suzano (Brazil), among others. Through his experimentation and study, he dreamt and effectively conceived a way to merge the pandeiro ...

Omri Mor / Yosef-Gutman Levitt: Melodies of Light

by Mike Jurkovic
October 1, 2023

It is quite rare in a culture and society driven by autocrats, hits, likes, blogs and podcasts, that recordings as ethereal, yet born of the ageless earth, as Melodies of Light come around to release us from the daily ugly. Spontaneous music of this hypnotic, mysterious beauty and elusive grace give us pause to ...

Eddie Gripper: Home

by Neil Duggan
May 6, 2023

Home is the debut album from Eddie Gripper, an English pianist, composer and educator from Oxfordshire. He's now based in Cardiff, where he studied jazz at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama with Huw Warren. He has collaborated with Warren and also with Iain Ballamy, John Parricelli and Welsh folk artist Angharad Jenkins of ...

Higher Grounds

By DO'A

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. Flor De Lis (5:13) 2. Alfonsina (4:51) 3. Lampara (3:25) 4. I Fall In Love Too Easily (4:25) 5. Unidad (1:34) 6. Pranvera (4:01) 7. Krijim (2:41)

The Sound Of Listening

By Mark Guiliana

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Path To Bliss; The Most Important Question; A Way Of Looking; Our Essential Nature; The Courage To Be Free; Everything Changed After You Left; The Sound Of Listening; Under The Influence; Practicing Silence; Continuation.

Same Moon in the Same World

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Outliers; Haven't Meta Yet; Low Glow; Third; Chrysalis; Vivid; Salvo; Don't Wait Too Long; After The Rain