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Avishai Cohen Trio at Tonhalle Dusseldorf
by Phillip Woolever
Avishai Cohen Trio Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Germany December 6, 2019 Avishai Cohen is embarking on a global birthday tour next year, including many dates with this current trio formation of long time drummer and fellow Israeli Noam David and pianist Elchin Shirinov from Azerbaijan. Considering that the group started presenting most of the album Arvoles (Razdaz Recordz 2019) recently, this was probably a prime time to catch them in terms of both well-honed repertoire ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen: Arvoles
by Roger Farbey
In the late 1990s, bassist Avishai Cohen was living and working in New York, having arrived a few years earlier from Israel. Out of the blue he received a phone call from Chick Corea which effectively changed his life. Not only did Corea offer Cohen a recording contract on the pianist's Stretch label, he also invited him to join him in a new acoustic group, Origins. This association culminated in a handful of albums between 1997 and 2000, with both ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen: Into the Silence
by Alberto Bazzurro
Titolo rivelatore se mai album ne ebbe uno: dentro e intorno al silenzio questo ragguardevole lavoro del trentottenne trombettista israeliano si muove e individua la sua stessa ragion d'essere. Intendiamoci: di silenzio, in senso cageano o meno, non ce n'è affatto, e tuttavia è--filosoficamente e poeticamente--questo il punto di partenza (e forse d'arrivo) del disco, nella misura in cui come anelito di (e tensione verso il) silenzio s'intenda un senso di spogliamento, di prosciugamento, di essenzialità e totale assenza di ...
Continue ReadingSkopje Jazz Festival 2015
by Nenad Georgievski
Skopje Jazz Festival 2015 MOB Skopje, Macedonia October 15-18, 2015 Always in the news and perennially in either political or economic turmoil, Macedonia is not the easiest place to live. Conflicts, poverty, crisis. Even now in 2015 it was not spared from problems as it was on a trail of hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the troubles in Syria and Iraq. Amidst all of these circumstances, problems and troublesome ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen: From Darkness, a new trio studio album
by Marta Ramon
Avishai Cohen is prolific in music and words, a creative volcano who finds his raison d'être melting with the heart of his wooden instrument. Cohen, who arrived at the forefront of the jazz scene being part of the Chick Corea Sextet “Origin" (from 1996 to 2003), has developed a unique voice and personality as a bassist, but also as a composer and singer. Internationally renowned because of his Trio, accompanied by the pianist Shai Maestro and the drummer Mark Guiliana, ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen Strings Project al Parco della Musica, Roma
by Mario Calvitti
Parco della Musica Roma Jazz Festival Roma 27.10.2013 Un altro appuntamento importante nel programma del Roma Jazz Festival è stato quello che vedeva protagonista il contrabbassista israeliano Avishai Cohen con il suo ultimo progetto, che mescola il jazz del suo classico trio con le suggestioni della canzone popolare di area mediterranea condite da arrangiamenti cameristici affidati a un quartetto d'archi e un oboe che completano la formazione. Preceduto dalla lettura di alcuni brani ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen: Almah
by Bruce Lindsay
After a dozen albums as leader and a career that has seen him perform with Chick Corea, Mark Guiliana and Alicia Keys, Almah finds bassist Avishai Cohen returning to his first loves. Those “first loves," according to the press notes, are classical music and, more particularly, chamber music. Almah is a return to these loves, but with a healthy dose of Middle Eastern inspiration and at least one certified jazz standard (Thad Jones' “A Child Is Born," which receives a ...
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