Music

The Chilean psychedelic rock group Föllakzoid draws on the music of Cream, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead in creating their futuristic, electronic, but still traditional sound. They aim to take their audiences on a transformational journey with every show. See them at Omni Space March 16th.

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Maestro began playing classical piano at age five under the instruction of Irena Krivatz and graduated with honors from the Thelma Yellin High School of Performing Arts in Givataim, Israel. After winning the National Jazz Ensembles Competition “Jazz Signs” in 2002 and 2003 and receiving excellency scholarships 2004-2010 from the America-Israel Cultural Fund for jazz piano, Maestro attended Berklee College of Music’s Five-Week Summer Performance Program in Boston, where he was awarded a full scholarship to attend Berklee full-time—an offer Maestro ultimately declined. Maestro’s intuitions proved right: just a few weeks later, he received a phone call from bassist Avishai Cohen, known for his long-time collaboration with Chick Corea as well as for his successful band-leading career. The bassist called to invite Maestro to join the Avishai Cohen Trio with drummer Mark Guiliana.

Maestro recorded four albums with the Avishai Cohen Trio, including two on Blue Note Records: Gently Disturbed (2008), Sensitive Hours (2008), Aurora (2009), and Seven Seas (2011). The trio toured the world and played at some of the world’s most renowned venues and festivals, including Olympia Hall in Paris and the Vienna and Berlin Concert Houses, to name a few. In July 2010, Maestro formed his own trio with Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz and just a few months later, the trio recorded their well- received first album, Shai Maestro Trio, for the French label Laborie Jazz. The trio began an intense schedule of touring the world, playing up to 80 concerts a year and sharing stages with groups led by Chick Corea, Tigran Hamasyan, Esperanza Spalding, and Diana Krall. In 2012, the trio released their second album for Laborie Jazz, entitled The Road to Ithaca, making an even more personal and intimate statement, going back to the essence of their being: unedited and raw.

Following that line of thought, the Shai Maestro Trio released their most recent albums Untold Stories and The Stone Skipper in October 2014 and November 2016. Listeners and the media outlets alike, including DownBeat Magazine, NPR, BBC, JazzFM, TSF, and WBGO’s The Checkout, received the albums with critical acclaim. With these albums, Maestro entered a new phase in his artistry: taking time, fearing less, daring more, and allowing the music to unfold organically, more than ever. Especially live, the natural developments made the trio one of the most powerful and harmonious groups in the jazz today. See them live at Blue Note on March 16th.

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“Tomorrow Has Arrived” is a special tour featuring up-and-coming jazz guitarist Zhang Xiongguan. The theme is derived from his debut album New Sound From The Past. In January 2017, guitarist Zhang Xiongguan, saxophonist Kevin Sun, bassist Neil Patton, and drummer Dor Herskovits recorded Zhang's second album of original material entitled Struggles.

After graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music, Zhang joined China's leading jazz label JZ Music and invited the original lineup of Struggles for a reunion tour as the “New England Quartet.” They are presently scheduled to perform in different eight cities across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/46169

NAGA Guitars brings Belgian master guitarist Jacques Stotzem to the stage at Omni Space on March 14th. The acoustic fingerstyle performer has a unique personal style, drawing on blues, jazz and folk guitar, has released 11 albums and toured around the world.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/44166

The melodic death metal act Arch Enemy has been together since 1995, through multiple changes to the lineup, ten studio albums, three live albums and four EPs. Catch these giants of the Swedish metal scene at Tango 3F on April 8th on their Will To Power Tour.

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69 Cafe hosts Skolar and Li Eryang on Saturday night. Skolar is a Beijing-based experimenter blending acoustic song with electronic beats. Li Eryang is inspired by classic rock from the 60’s and 70’s and brings that energy to his folk performances.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/46861

Join fingerstyle guitarist Yan Bozhou, sitar guru and singer-songwriter Rudra’s Sage (Raymond) and classic-rock and folk inspired indie artist Pu Han for this Lantern Festival concert at Mogu Space on Friday night.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/47019

Born in the Phillipines, sitar player Rudra’s Sage (Raymond) grew up loving the sounds of 60s and 70s rock. He moved to India and studied his instrument next door to Ravi Shankar. He appears at Mogu Space on Sunday afternoon for a concert of Indian and rock classics for the sitar.

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The Rechenberg Trio is Master clarinet and altosax player Jochen Settili, former Taipei Century Symphony Orchestra principal violinist I-fun Wu on viola, and South Korean pianist and frequent international soloist Narey Park. See them live at the Bookworm for Mozart, Schumann and Bach on March 6th.

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The band SAMAGA happily marries different musical traditions. Their music find roots in Indian, Middle East and worldwide musical influences with a joyful dash of modern harmonies. The band melts modern compositions into Indianambiances,delivering their own interpretation of traditional Arabic Maqam and Indian Raga, constantly reinventing the soundscapes painted by the Indian Sitar, the Middle Eastern Percussions and Oud. See them at Jianghu on March 2nd.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/46894