Latest Release: It's In The Twilight

You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Paul Shapiro's music. But it helps to have a heart. The New York saxophonist has a big bruiser of a beat box, and that heart is in every note of his latest release, It’s In the Twilight.

In Yiddish, they call it rachmones – love, tenderness, compassion…all those things in such short supply in the world today. It’s in the Twilight radiates warmth, from the fat round sound Shapiro gets from his horn, to the close-knit interplay of a family of musicians who have been performing together and apart around downtown New York for over a decade. Taking as its cue the moment in Jewish liturgy when the work week ends and the luxury of the Sabbath begins – at twilight on Friday night – Shapiro’s music focuses on life’s transitions, from light to darkness, work to rest, from birth to death.

“In that time, the changing of the light, you see the majesty, the ineffability of nature,” Shapiro explains. “It’s in the twilight – the time when magical stuff happens.” The new album is indeed magic from a musician and composer who’s moved from strength to strength since his first album as a leader, 2003’s Midnight Minyan (Tzadik).  Paul Shapiro has quickly become a recognized master in the “downtown” scene and a light of today’s Jewish cultural ferment, earning accolades from DownBeat and The Forward alike.

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