For those unaware, Pianist and Composer Omer Klein’s music is “borderless” (New York Times) in its organic assimilation of widely diverse sources of inspiration, as he continuously “pushes mainstream Jazz concepts into the future” (Time Out New York).

A prolific performer and composer, Klein has released 8 albums as a soloist, and published over 100 original compositions.

An exclusive Warner Music artist, Klein has made three recordings for the label so far. Sleepwalkers (2017) is a trio exploration of themes related to society in the information age, for which the Omer Klein Trio has won the 2018 ECHO award.

This was followed by Radio Mediteran (2019), adding analog synthesizers and percussion to the classic trio format, thus creating “a very contemporary, forward-looking album full of subtle grooves and strong melodies” (Hamburger Abendblatt). Klein’s third effort for Warner Music and his 9th overall, “Personal Belongings”, was released in September 2021.

With bassist Haggai Cohen Milo and drummer Amir Bresler, Klein formed the Omer Klein Trio in 2013. The trio performs Klein’s compositions and tours extensively. Their debut recording, Fearless Friday (2015) is considered “one of the most rewarding piano trio releases of recent years” (All About Jazz).

And it is this very same trio - Omer Kein / Haggai Cohen / Amir Bresler - that now bring forth their brand new trio album, Life & Fire available now on Warner Music.

1. The Ravens
2. Song No.2
3. 3/4 Mantra
4. Tzuri
5. Cantando
6. One Step At A Time
7. Niggun
8. Spilt Milk
9. Malchut

On what is a recording that also celebrates the Omer Klein Trio’s 10th Anniversary being together, it opens on the luxuriously languishing The Ravens and the upbeat toe-tapper Song No.2 and then brings us the furtively-alert 3/4 Mantra, the simply captivating Tzuri and the melodiously free flowing Cantando.

Along next on this vibrantly accessible new recording is the organic preciseness of the key work within One Step At A Time, which is itself backed seamlessly by the dynamically-sculpted rhythms within the precisely hued gossamer of Niggun, the album rounding out on the veritably dainty Spilt Milk, coming to a close on the atmospherically-charged Malchut.

Musicians:
Omer Klein, Piano
Haggai Cohen-Milo, Bass
Amir Bresler, Drums

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Omer Klein Trio - Niggun [Official Video]