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Shai Maestro: The Guesthouse
by Neil Duggan
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 ...
Continue ReadingShai Maestro, Frank Kimbrough, Antonio Faraò, Keith Jarrett & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
A set for piano lovers, with a particular focus on recent and newly issued solo recordings which explore spontaneity, lyricism, and the quiet intensity of unaccompanied playing, from Antonio Faraò's balanced mix of freedom and structure to the poetic restraint and emotional clarity of Frank Kimbrough, Bugge Wesseltoft, and Shai Maestro, before arriving at one of Keith Jarrett's late solo concert statements. Fred Hersch's trio wraps up the playlist.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. ...
Continue ReadingCamila Meza: Portal
by Angelo Leonardi
La strada intrapresa da Camila Meza a partire dall'album Traces (Sunnyside 2016) e proseguita con Ámbar (Core Port 2019) trova con quest'album la sua espressione più alta e personale. Dal 2007 al 2013 Camila aveva pubblicato altri tre dischi, mostrando una raffinata vena interpretativa legata ai modelli e al repertorio della tradizione vocale jazzistica. Nell'ultimo decennio il suo percorso artistico può essere interpretato con i caratteri junghiani del processo di individuazione, ovvero la progressiva espressione dell'individualità, la piena affermazione ...
Continue ReadingShai Maestro At Barcelona El Molino
by Artur Moral
Shai Maestro El Molino Barcelona, Spain May 16, 2025 The Barcelöna Concert?The intense crimson decor of El Molino, once a café-concert hall devoted to revue and cabaret, now a splendidly renovated space dedicated to all genres of music--with a special emphasis on contemporary jazz--hosted a special night with Shai Maestro. This marked his first concert in Barcelona following the release of his latest solo piano album, Solo: Miniatures & Tales (Naïve, 2025), after settling in ...
Continue ReadingShai Maestro: Solo: Miniatures & Tales
by Neil Duggan
Shai Maestro fired the imagination when he joined Avishai Cohen's trio when only 19 years old, contributing to four well-received albums. In 2010, Maestro formed his own trio and released a string of albums as leader before moving to ECM Records with two excellent trio albums, The Dream Thief (2018) and Human (2021), which enhanced his reputation as a major influence in contemporary jazz. Along the way he has worked with Oded Tzur, Theo Bleckmann and Ben Wendel. He continues ...
Continue ReadingJune Yun: Enlightenment - Solid Waves
by Dan McClenaghan
South Korean vocalist June Yun's compositional debut, Enlightenment -Solid Waves, explores the feelings and emotions elicited by the concepts of light and dark. These things are difficult to describe in words but translate, with her music, into compelling, atmospheric soundscapes full of shadows, apparitions, angelic imagery and mystical moods. Vid Jamnic's resonant vibraphone murkiness lays a backdrop for Yun's emotive clarity of expression on the disc's opener, “Little Mighty Soul." The lyrics are cryptic and bring to mind mid-career Joni ...
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