Credits:

Shai Maestro

Description:

This is the first ECM leader release from Shai Maestro, a talented pianist who is one of the leading figures in Israeli jazz. After five years in bassist Avishai Cohen's band, and then expanding his activities to include the Mark Guiliana Quartet and a duo with Chris Potter, he finally appears in his own trio work, having first appeared on ECM in Theo Blechman's "Elegy" released in 2017. Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder has been with the trio for the past seven years, but this album features a new drummer, Israeli Ofri Nehemya, who plays mostly Maestro originals, as well as solo piano pieces M-1 is an Israeli singer-songwriter Matti Caspi's Maestro has loved this song since he was a child, and it has become a part of him. Likewise, he loves "These Foolish Things" for its melody and beautiful harmonies. Recording with producer Eicher, the studio had an atmosphere of "openness, like a moment of magic happening.Expressions of joy, introspective thoughts, and heightened intensity all come to the fore, and the touch that only a maestro can have is special, expressing a moment of emotion in a single phrase. A beautiful and melodically rich disc of great interest! (Personnel)Shai Maestro(p) Jorge Roeder(double-b) Ofri Nehemya(ds)

Tracklisting:

1.My Second Childhood
2.The Forgotten Village
3.The Dream Thief
4.A Moon's Tale
5.Lifeline
6.Choral
7.New River, New Water
8.These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
9.What Else Needs to Happen?