Disk of 2021
Yaniv Taubenhouse – the “Moments in trio III – Roads” – Jazzy hour, June 8th, 2021
The life of an artist can bring its fair share of uncertainties. The decisions an artist makes can lead to a lengthy journey, along which its joy can outweigh the final destination. When the pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse moved to New York, he made the decision to form a trio that would cultivate his music, would help him discover his style and would set him out on his musical journey in a stable formula.
All was said and done. In 2015 he releases "Moments in trio", an album filled with personality, that encompassed all qualities of a modern jazz trio, with a polished style, an album that promised a lot for the future. And it happened. In 2018, the trio releases the second part of this inspired and alluring musical flux, one that made the cohesion between the members to be felt, which promised development. The third flight around the sun, in the same formula, with Yaniv Taubenhouse playing the piano, Rick Rosato as the bassist and Jerad Lippi as the drummer, happens in 2021, with the name of "Moments in Trio III", retaking on the daring, yet balanced sound of the first album, the stability of the second one, and adding a higher level of interplay and lyrical subtlety. This third moment in trio makes room for a new perspective, given by the time spent in this formula, in concerts and in the studio.
Sophisticated, but sure of themselves, the artists offer us a new range of original pieces, along with some classical ones, tackled with taste, with delicate transitions from one mood to another, in a single, admirable aesthetic unity. No matter what Yaniv Taubenhouse's future decisions might be, this trio will remain his primary way of musical exploration, of boundary breaking, cultivating a language that becomes more fluent with every release.