Shai Maestro Trio - Solo: Miniatures & Tales (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Thanks to someone getting in touch and sending me this – I suppose it was their having spotted that ‘Three Colors’ from Miniatures and Tales is track of the week – oh happy day. It’s great.

Delights include a version of everyone’s favourite standard ‘All the Things You Are’ but that’s only the start of it and the real meat of the album isn’t just standards.

This new album marks a shift away from ECM for the pianist who to us was the best ever pianist in any group led by bass icon Avishai Cohen. Most others just couldn’t and can’t do what he did on Gently Disturbed.

As an artist under his own steam he is as remarkably ingenious. And I reckon he is as world class at the top of the tree in terms of individualism if not the same styles often as Tigran, Marcin Wasilewski, Brad Mehldau, Vijay Iyer, Ethan Iverson, Renee Rosnes, Robert Glasper, Kit Downes, Stefano Bollani, Django Bates, Marcin Masecki and Jason Moran.

TRACKLIST

1 3 Colors
2 All The Things You Are
3 Gloria
4 Monkey Mind (Chaos is an intimate thing)
5 Aba (For Gil Maestro)
6 An Old Family Photo
7 From One Soul To Another
8 Dakini (The Sky Dancer)
9 For All We Know
10 Mystery And Illusions



Thanks to the Original customer.