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Devotion

By Avishai Cohen

Label: Stretch Records
Released: 1999

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This is Israeli–born bassist Avishai Cohen’s second recording as leader, and, like the first, it is comprised mainly of his compositions (an even dozen, plus the traditional “Linda de Mi Corazon” and pianist Lindner’s “Candela City”), which I described in an earlier review as “upbeat and buoyant” (and which for the most part remain so on ...

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Avishai Cohen: Devotion

Read "Devotion" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
May 1, 1999

Avishai Cohen's modern mainstream sextet performs in a hard bop tradition while encompassing ethnic influences from all over the world. In Cohen's compositions you can pick out modes, rhythms, and themes that feel as though they represent cultures from eastern Asia, northern Africa, central Europe, South America, southwestern Asia, the U.S. and more. The 28-year-old Jerusalem ...

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Adama

By Avishai Cohen

Label: Stretch Records
Released: 1998

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Avishai Cohen: Adama

by Jim Santella
April 1, 1998

Handling the acoustic bass like a flamenco guitar, then applying the blues, newcomer Avishai Cohen has produced a session in the modern mainstream with considerable intensity. The “fire" comes from his writing; these are all the bassist's compositions except for the standard “Besame Mucho." In putting together his arrangements, Cohen mixes meters in various combinations, allowing ...

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Avishai Cohen: Adama

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 1998

It’s true, one can’t always appraise a book by its cover. Looking at bassist Avishai Cohen’s grim visage on the jacket of Adama, I was expecting to hear music of a similar temperament within. And while there are a few brooding passages, most of Cohen’s music — he wrote 11 of the disc’s dozen selections — ...