Jazz Articles about Gadi Lehavi

About Gadi Lehavi

Album Review

This is pianist Shai Maestro's second release since signing for Naive in 2025. The first, Solo: Miniatures & Tales (Naïve, 2025), was a personal exploration; in deliberate contrast, The Guesthouse is expansive, open and collaborative. Maestro describes the album as “my attempt to turn the creative chaos that lives in mind into one coherent artistic statement, always having a simple melody as a thread that tells the story of this collective." Inspired by Rumi's poem The Guesthouse, Maestro ...

Album Review

Ari Hoenig: Tea For Three

Read "Tea For Three" reviewed by Artur Moral

by Artur Moral
May 20, 2025

In the concise liner notes for this release, Ari Hoenig states that this is the first time he has kept the same lineup for two consecutive recordings. No shock there: From the album's opening bars, it is clear we are not just dealing with another trio, but with the convergence of three exceptional musical personalities whose creativity, level of connection and dialogic interplay deserve repeated opportunities to be captured in a studio setting. That is not to say the first ...