Pianist Joey Alexander displays a nuanced stylistic maturity on his eighth studio album, 2026’s Celestial Keeper. The follow-up to 2023’s Continuance, Celestial Keeper is Alexander’s first album since moving back to his native Bali, Indonesia. It arrives on the heels of a formative decade for the instrumentalist living in New York and Baltimore, during which time he grew from an 11-year-old jazz wunderkind, to a Grammy winner and leader of his own internationally recognized trio. While he was always a virtuoso, Alexander (who was still just 23 at the time of recording) has only gotten better both as an improviser and conceptualist. He brings all of this experience to bear on Celestial Keeper, a title that evokes the idea of a guardian angel and finds him…

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