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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 ReadingAri Hoenig: Tea For Three
by Artur Moral
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 ...
Continue ReadingKeep an Ear out for Gadi Lehavi
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
With fairness, it could be charged that Rifftides has been too concerned lately with the old and the dead. Well, certain observances and acknowledgments needed to be made. But let's move on. David Liebman wrote with an antidote. Here's his message:
ok--it's a cliche now that they" (meaning the kids) get better earlier-check this out--he's already doing classical stuff since he was a babe--jazz for two years--Ravi (Coltrane) turned me on to him before I went to Israel a few ...read more




