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Avishai Cohen: Devotion
by Jim Santella
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 ...
Niacin: High Bias
by Christopher Hoard
If you've sensed a shortage of adrenaline and testosterone in the year's new jazz releases, and still yearn for some of that down-to-earth, kick-ass fusion, replete with hyper-athletic chops and afterburner grooves, then wait no longer. Virtuoso fusion projects seem to be out of fashion with large corporate labels bent on milking their vaults with re-issues ...
Niacin: High Bias
by Glenn Astarita
High Bias is the follow up to last year's explosive debut on Chick Corea's Stretch record label. As the press release suggests: Niacin is a tighter and slightly more cohesive unit. The driving force is keyboard guru John Novello. Novello is a well know West Coast session musician, educator and Hammond B-3 enthusiast. Bassist Billy Sheehan ...
Niacin: High Bias
by Jack Bowers
A little Niacin can do no harm as long as one knows in advance what is being digested and why. Niacin is simply the good old-fashioned organ (or piano)/bass/drums trio updated for the '90s. There's a Jazz core but it is overlaid with a rock beat, awash in electronically generated sound, and marked by a decibel ...
Avishai Cohen: Adama
by Jim Santella
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 ...
Avishai Cohen: Adama
by Jack Bowers
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 — ...
