Artist: Shai Maestro Trio
Album: The Dream Thief
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 48:12
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 838 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Shai Maestro – My Second Childhood (04:39)
1-02. Shai Maestro – The Forgotten Village (06:21)
1-03. Shai Maestro – The Dream Thief (08:29)
1-04. Shai Maestro – A Moons Tale (02:36)
1-05. Shai Maestro – Lifeline (03:54)
1-06. Shai Maestro – Choral (03:50)
1-07. Shai Maestro – New River, New Water (06:59)
1-08. Shai Maestro – These Foolish Things – remind me of you (04:24)
1-09. Shai Maestro – What Else Needs to Happen? (06:56)

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Following four albums that have helped established him on the contemporary jazz scene, Shai Maestro is taking a major step by combining with the ECM label. Still in a trio with his double bass accomplice Jorge Roeder and drummer Ofri Nehemya (who replaces regular Ziv Ravitz), the Israeli pianist is once again going down the path of sublime multi-layered narratives. The melodies are taken from jazz as well as Eastern traditional music, and even Western classical music. Whether he feels introspective (on Israeli Matti Caspi’s My Second Childhood) or overtly provocative (surprising interpretation of the classic These Foolish Things), he has kept his soft touch and refined musical language. Ever since 2012, when he released the first album with him as the frontman, his profoundly personal aesthetic has continued to impress. He possesses a strong narrative force and stays well wired into the times, like on the final composition What Else Needs To Happen?, in which Shai Maestro very subtly inserts the voice of Barack Obama giving a speech about gun control.  – Marc Zisman