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Shai Maestro - The Dream Thief Shai Maestro piano Jorge Roeder double bass Ofri Nehemya drums ECM 2616 available on CD / LP / Download & streaming: The first ECM leader date for Shai Maestro (following his label debut with Theo Bleckmann on Ele-gy) features the gifted pianist fronting his superlative trio with fellow Israeli Ofri Nehemya on drums and Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder, and also playing alone. A solo interpretation of Matti Caspi’s “My Second Childhood” opens the curtain on a programme of characteristically thoughtful Maestro originals, each one with a story to tell. “Hearing the Shai Maestro Trio is like awakening to a new world”, All About Jazz has suggested. “Expressions of joy, introspective thoughts and heightened intensity all come to the fore.” Maestro’s differentiated touch is special; he can convey a range of fleeting emotions in a single phrase. A deconstruction of “These Foolish Things”, the album’s sole
