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A year after his impressionistic, award winning and critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, Avishai Cohen’s Cross My Palm With Silver (May 5th, 2017) introduces a program of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with an exceptional quartet featuring Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums). The adroit interplay among the musicians allows Avishai Cohen to soar, making it clear why the pure-toned trumpeter is one of the most talked-about jazz musicians on the contemporary scene.
In 2016 alone, Cohen was named “Best Foreign Artist” by Jazz Magazine France, while Into the Silence was awarded “Best Album of the Year” by TSF Jazz and Academie du Jazz, and in the top 20 albums of the year by JazzTimes. For four years running, Cohen has been voted a Rising Star-Trumpet in the Down Beat Critics Poll. Along with leading his quartet, the trumpeter has led Triveni (a trio with Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits) for over a decade, was a member of the prestigious SFJAZZ Collective for six years, and has been a featured soloist in a number of special ensembles – most recently in “Jazz 100” alongside Danilo Perez, Lizz Wright, Chris Potter and Wycliffe Gordon. He also records and tours the world with The 3 Cohens Sextet, the hit family band with his sister, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and brother, saxophonist Yuval. Declared All About Jazz: “To the ranks of the Heaths of Philadelphia, the Joneses of Detroit and the Marsalises of New Orleans, fans can now add the 3 Cohens of Tel Aviv.”
The trumpeter began performing in public in 1988 at age 10, playing his first solos with a big band and eventually touring with the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra to perform under the likes of maestros Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur and Kent Nagano. Having worked with Israeli folk and pop artists in his native country and appeared on television early on, Cohen arrived as an experienced professional musician when he took up a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1997, the young musician established an international reputation by placing third in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition. Avishai came of age as a jazz player as part of the fertile scene at the club Smalls in New York’s West Village.
Cohen first recorded for ECM as part of saxophonist Mark Turner’s quartet on Lathe of Heaven, released in September 2014. The trumpeter has performed at the Village Vanguard and beyond with Turner, as well as widely in a band led by pianist Kenny Werner. Cohen has played often in the Mingus Big Band and Mingus Dynasty ensemble, and he has lent his horn to recordings by Anat Cohen, Yuval Cohen and keyboardist Jason Lindner, along with collaborating on stage with French-Israeli pop singer Keren Ann, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Indian Tabla Master Zakir Hussain. In addition to performing, Cohen was named the Artistic Director of the International Jerusalem Festival in 2015.
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by Marco Iacoboni
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Continue Reading3 Cohens, WDB Big Band: Interaction
by Angelo Leonardi
A dieci anni di distanza dalla loro ultima collaborazione discografica, Yuval, Anat e Avishai Cohen tornano con quest'album live, che documenta il concerto dato con la WDR Big Band il 16 giugno 2022 alla Filarmonica di Colonia. Altra figura centrale dell'evento è Oded Lev-Ari, che ha scritto le partiture e diretto l'orchestra. Oded collabora con i Cohen sin dagli anni in cui tutti studiavano a Tel-Aviv. Anche se suonano assieme dall'adolescenza, il sodalizio professionale dei tre fratelli è ...
Continue ReadingThe 3 Cohens: Interaction
by Mike Jurkovic
As a thriving collective, the 3 Cohens have recorded four outstanding studio albums over the first quarter of the 21st century: the self-produced One (2003), 2007's Braid, 2011's Family and 2013's Tightrope, (last three released by Anzic Records, the label founded by clarinetist Anat Cohen with kindred-spirit producer-collaborator Oded Lev-Ari). Dipping, darting, diving, the 3 Cohens have crisscrossed the global stage, bringing their joyful high-flying interplay to Brazil, New York, Europe and Australia. Searing, swerving and soaring, trumpeter Avishai Cohen's revved-up swing testament, ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen Quartet at Piacenza Jazz Festival 2024
by Danilo Codazzi
A collection of photos from the Avishai Cohen Quartet concert at Piacenza Jazz Fest in Piacenza, Italy on April 5, 2024 featuring Avishai Cohen, Yonathan Avishai, Barak Mori and Ziv Ravitz. ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai: Playing The Room
by Michael McKinney
Playing the Room, a record pairing New York-based trumpet player Avishai Cohen and Burgundy-based pianist Yonathan Avishai, is a restrained and joyous affair. Their playing glows with a quiet delight, as though the musicians were glad for the simple act of playing together. That rarely comes out in overt and loud celebration, however—this is not a record of fireworks. That much is clear from the start: “The Opening" starts the record off with a stately melody from Avishai; ...
Continue ReadingJazz & Wine of Peace 2018
by Luciano Rossetti
Photos from the 2018 Jazz & Wine of Peace Festival, held in Cormons and various other locations in the “Collio Friulano" and in Slovenia, from October 21st to October 28th. The festival featured, among others, Avishai Cohen, Giancarlo Schiaffini, The Bad Plus, Evan Parker, Arild Andersen, John Scofield, Egberto Gismonti, The Thing, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Roots Magic. ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen: Cross My Palm With Silver
by Niccolò Lucarelli
Avishai Cohen, trombettista israeliano da anni stabilitosi a New York, è jazzista dalla profonda coscienza civile, sensibile alle problematiche politiche di Israele, la sua terra natale, così come degli Stati Uniti, suo Paese d'adozione. Cross My Palm with Silver, è un album dal fascino mistico, con quel titolo che sa d'invocazione alla divinità, di preparazione a un rito propiziatorio. Da sempre la musica è strumento di pace e di dialogo, e l'ultima fatica jazzistica di Cohen contiene riflessioni sull'assurdità dei ...
Continue ReadingAvishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai Release Playing The Room on ECM Records. Out Now!
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ECM Records
Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan recently making important contributions to Avishai’s group albums on ECM. Their first duo recording begins with music composed by the trumpeter and by the pianist and concludes with a touching interpretation of Israeli composer Alexander Argov’s cradle song “Shir Eres”. Along the way, ...
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ECM Records Releases Avishai Cohen's "Into The Silence"
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Universal Music Enterprises
Avishai Cohen: trumpet; Yonathan Avishai: piano; Eric Revis: double bass; Nasheet Waits: drums; Bill McHenry: tenor saxophone. Avishai Cohen impressed a lot of listeners with his soulful contributions to Mark Turner’s Lathe of Heaven album in 2014. Now the charismatic Tel Aviv-born trumpeter has his ECM leader debut in a program of expansive and impressionistic compositions for jazz quartet (trumpet, piano, bass, drums), augmented by tenor saxophone on a few pieces. Into The Silence is dedicated to the memory of ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Avishai Cohen's Triveni reimagines standards
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, our video spotlight shines on trumpeter Avishai Cohen, who will be in St. Louis to perform for one night only this Thursday, May 21 at Jazz at the Bistro. Cohen will be playing with his group Triveni, a trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits that plays stripped-down versions of well-known songs from the modern jazz repertoire, along with original material in a similar style. Not to be confused with the jazz bassist of the same ...
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The Danish Winter Jazz Fest 2014 Sets New Record With More Than 400 Concerts Across The Kingdom In February
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Simon Christensen
The 7 - 23rd February it is time for the 14th edition of the Winter Jazz Fest (in Danish: Vinterjazz). Vinterjazz is the only nationwide music festival in Denmark—keep an eye on the local venues to check what is on the program in your neighborhood. The 2014 edition of Vinterjazz is bigger than ever, presenting more than 400 concerts, spread well to 75 venues across the country, which is a significant improvement on the last year's 300 concerts at 60 ...
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Anzic Records Artists The 3 Cohens Live at The Village Vanguard - November 1-6
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Anzic Records Artists the 3 COHENS Celebrate New Recording, FAMILY at The Village Vanguard, November 1-6! AVISHAI COHEN (trumpet), ANAT COHEN (tenor saxophone & clarinet), YUVAL COHEN (soprano saxophone), with Aaron Goldberg (piano), Omer Avital (bass), and Jonathan Blake (drums) The 3 Cohens Celebrate the Release of Family November 1-6, The Village Vanguard, NYC November 10, Scullers, Boston, MA November 1, Shalin Liu Performance Center—Rockport Music Hall, Rockport, MA November 12, Koerner Hall, Toronto (Double bill with The Jamey Haddad ...
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Avishai Cohen - After the Big Rain (2007)
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Something Else!
Reviewers sometimes get too caught up playing the label game: jazz, pop, world (ah, the ambiguous catch-all label), rock, ambient. Whenever a writer struggles with material that lacks a definite musical anchor, I am reminded of the transformation seen through Miles Davis' electric years. Squeaky horns, abusive guitars, fuzzed-out keyboards, all woven together with constantly shifting, obscenely polyrhythmic percussion. It was jazz, pop, rock, ambient, and a handful of other things. Forget the category, nothing sounded like this. Trumpeter Avishai ...
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Anzic Records to Release Introducing Triveni from Trumpeter/Composer Avishai Cohen
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
"Cohen is a multi-cultural jazz musician, among whose ancestors is Miles Davis. Like Davis, he can make the trumpet a vehicle for uttering the most poignant and portentous human cries."—Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes (on Flood) “An extravagantly skilled trumpeter.. relaxed and soulful... he deftly combined sensitivity and flair."—Nate Chinen, The New York Times (on Triveni live at The Jazz Standard) Anzic Records To Release Introducing Triveni From Trumpeter/Composer AVISHAI COHEN On September 28, 2010 Anzic Records will release trumpeter/composer ...
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The Jazz Session #35: Avishai Cohen (Trumpet)
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All About Jazz
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews trumpeter and composer Avishai Cohen. (Not to be confused with bassist and composer Avishai Cohen.) Cohen is at the center of a vibrant musical scene in New York City -- full of experimentation, melding musical styles, and an appetite for adventure. More than that, Cohen is a philosopher-musician, using his compositions to explore larger societal questions. His 2007 album After The Big Rain (Anzic Records, 2007) looks at the ...
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Trumpeter Avishai Cohen to Perform at the Jazz Standard on June 27
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DL Media
Jazz Standard June 27, 2007 Featuring Special Guest Guitarist LIONEL LOUEKE In Support of Avishai's New Release, AFTER THE BIG RAIN
Originally from Tel Aviv, Israel, Avishai Cohen is one of the great young figures on the international jazz scene today. He has shared the stage with the great Bobby Hutcherson in the San Francisco Jazz Collective; has toured with the critically-acclaimed French-Israeli chanteuse Keren Ann; and has co-led such outstanding ensembles as Third World Love, ...
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Avishai Cohen - Trumpet
Location: New York City
Instrument: Trumpet
Born: 1978
Management: International Music Network
Publicist: DL Media
