Avishai Cohen is globally recognized as a musician with an individual sound and a questing spirit, an ever-creative player-composer open to multiple strains of jazz and active as a leader, co-leader and sideman. Aside from the acclaimed work with his quartet over the last several years, and previously his trio work under the moniker Triveni, the trumpeter has also recorded and toured the world as part of the Mark Turner Quartet, the SFJAZZ Collective, Jazz100 (with Danilo Perez, Chris Potter, etc.) Zakir Hussain, and the 3 Cohens Sextet – with his sister, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and brother, saxophonist Yuval. Cohen’s electric project BIG VICIOUS, featuring two guitarists and two drummers, has won a devoted audience at international festivals. Named as the Artistic Director of the International Jerusalem Festival, Cohen has also been voted a Rising Star on three consecutive occasions in the DownBeat Critics Poll.
AVISHAI COHEN QUARTET
When describing trumpeter Avishai Cohen, The Guardian said “every generation of jazz trumpeters revisits the legacy of Miles Davis in their own ways, but the Israeli rising star Avishai Cohen’s version of the journey has been particularly skillful.” In 2017, a year after his impressionistic, award winning, and critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, Cohen’s sophomore release for ECM Cross My Palm With Silver introduced audiences to a new collection of pieces highlighting his exceptional quartet. The adroit interplay of Cohen’s live band featuring Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (bass), and Ziv Ravitz (drums), allows Cohen to soar, making it clear why the pure-toned trumpeter is one of the most talked-about jazz musicians on the contemporary scene.
AVISHAI COHEN BIG VICIOUS
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen has earned renown as a musician with an individual sound and a questing spirit, an ever-creative player-composer open to multiple strains of jazz and active internationally as a leader, co-leader and sideman. The New York Times described him as “an assertive, accomplished trumpeter with a taste for modernism” as well as “an extravagantly skilled trumpeter, relaxed and soulful…deftly combining sensitivity and flair.” A genre-bending venture by Cohen, Big Vicious originated from several Lower East Side jam sessions. The initial premise was to build instrumental songs based on rock riffs, using a mirrored rhythm section (in this final incarnation – two guitars, and two drummers) with Cohen leading and layering his distinctive trumpet melodies both inside and over the band. The resulting music is a combination of composed motifs, rock backbeats, and jazz improvisation that works both in a small dark club and an open-air festival stage.
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AVISHAI COHEN & YONATHAN AVISHAI
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen and pianist Yonathan Avishai have been outstanding global jazz ambassadors throughout their careers, performing in the top jazz clubs and festivals from New York to Tokyo, after meeting as boys in their shared home of Tel Aviv. The two musicians have known each other for over two decades and founded the quartet Third World Love together in 2002. Now living in France, Yonathan Avishai’s lyrical piano playing can be heard on his friend Avishai Cohen’s highly praised ECM releases Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver. With a tremendous and intensively focused sound on trumpet, Cohen’s improvisations skillfully brings to life the spirit of such jazz icons as Don Cherry, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman. Now, for the first time, Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai perform as a duo with jazz standards and original compositions from Playing The Room (recorded by Manfred Eicher and released on ECM in the Fall of 2019), which fascinatingly reflect the world-music-rich experience of the two musicians.
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CURRENT RELEASE
Cross My Palm With Silver (May 5th, 2017)
Big Vicious (ECM, March 27, 2020)
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Congratulations to Avishai Cohen, recipient of the Grand Prix de l’Académie du Jazz for record of the year! For more info click here
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from WUWM Jazz Trumpeter Avishai Cohen Journeys ‘Into the Silence’ in New Album By Maayan Silver Growing up in Israel, jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen was surrounded by music. “My dad was a jazz lover,” says Cohen. “We used to listen at home to artists like Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald.” But it wasn’t just jazz on the airwaves in...
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Posted Apr 18th, 2016
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From spiritualityhealth.com The Sound of Loss from Avishai Cohen “For four years running, Avishai Cohen has been voted a Rising Star-Trumpet in the DownBeat Critics Poll. Along with leading his Triveni trio with Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits, the trumpeter has been a member of the prestigious SF Jazz Collective for six years. He also records and tours the world...
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From telegraph.co.uk Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence (ECM) By Martin Chilton “In his first record for ECM, New York-based Israeli trumpeter has recorded a moving album dedicated to his late father. The playing is sad and expressive and features some lovely work with the mute. There is some fine tenor sax from Bill McHenry and deft piano work from Yonathan...
Posted Apr 7th, 2016
From downbeat.com Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence “There’s no lack of poise in Avishai Cohen’s music. This new quintet disc arrives with a fetching equilibrium that gives each passage the power to determine its own weight. as the trumpeter’s crew moves along, precision guides their choices. Maybe that’s because Cohen is so accustomed to do trio work, a realm...
Posted Apr 1st, 2016
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From zeit.de Zu sich, zu uns, zu mir To be, to us, to me By Ulrich Stock “Sein Ton ist klagend, klar, strahlend, schön, übermütig, verloren, dunkel, leuchtend, weich. Avishai Cohen, der Trompeter, ist ein Meister der Nuancen. Er nimmt uns mit in die nächtlichen Straßen Manhattans oder winkt uns kurz zu aus dem Osten der europäischen Klassik. Schwarze Tradition,...
Posted Mar 31st, 2016
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Posted Mar 25th, 2016
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Posted Mar 23rd, 2016
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Posted Mar 22nd, 2016
from allaboutjazz.com Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence By: Karl Ackerman Israeli-born trumpeter and prodigy Avishai Cohen was already touring with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra as a teenager. He attended Berklee College of Music, and later, placed highly in the Thelonious Monk jazz trumpet competition. A progressive-thinking artist, he hasn’t looked back musically. With his highly regarded group, Triveni, Cohen challenged...
Posted Mar 21st, 2016
From Lexington Herald Leader Critic’s Pick: Avishai Cohen, ‘Into the Silence’ By Walter Tunis It’s perhaps an inevitability for a versed jazz trumpet player to draw comparisons to Miles Davis. You try to avoid the parallels, yet there they are. So when Avishai Cohen opens his sublime new Into the Silence album with a slow, plaintive serenade on the muted...
Posted Mar 18th, 2016
From jewishaz.com Dark victory: Avishai Cohen’s ‘‘Into The Silence’ By AJ Frost “With “Into The Silence,” Cohen has created a dark masterpiece. This is not a jazz record to lift the spirits, but neither is it a mere jazz record. On the contrary, it is a stark and unrelenting tone poem, meant to be digested by those who can appreciate...
Posted Mar 18th, 2016
From kentucky.com Critic’s Pick: Avishai Cohen, ‘Into the Silence’ By Walter Tunis “It’s perhaps an inevitability for a versed jazz trumpet player to draw comparisons to Miles Davis. You try to avoid the parallels, yet there they are. So when Avishai Cohen opens his sublime new Into the Silence album with a slow, plaintive serenade on the muted horn over...
Posted Mar 17th, 2016
From spiritualityhealth.com Music Review: Into the Silence By John Malkin “Cohen’s muted trumpet is graceful and pure on songs like ‘Life and Death,’ ‘Quiescence,’ and ‘Behind the Broken Glass.’ His sensitive playing is enhanced by exquisite harmonies and interplay with a talented quartet of Yonathan Avishai (on piano), Eric Revis (double bass), Nasheet Waits (drums), and Bill McHenry (tenor saxophone)....
Posted Mar 15th, 2016
From toneaudio.reviews Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence By Kevin Whitehead “Avishai Cohen has a ravishing trumpet sound, and rare control, and knows what to do with all that technique. Soloing on ‘Behind the Broken Glass’ from his quartet/quintet’s Into the Silence, he steps or leaps from the low end of his horn’s range to the top. He plays precarious...
Posted Mar 15th, 2016
From fonoforum.de Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence By Karl Lippegaus “Als sein Vater nur noch wenige Wochen zu leben hatte, hörte Avishai viel die Klavierstücke Rachmaninows sowie Eric Dolphys Meilenstein ‘žOut To Lunch’. Seine Musik auf ‘žInto The Silence’ klingt anders, aber das waren die Inspirationsquellen. Keiner der Musiker, nicht mal er selbst, hatte die Kompositionen gehört, bevor man...
Posted Mar 15th, 2016
From br-klassik.de “Into The Silence” By Roland Spiegel “Faszinierend, wie diese zarte und zugleich ungemein konturenscharfe Trompetenstimme sich in die Harmonien schmiegt und manchmal wie ein Lichtstrahl über der Klavierstimme zu glimmen scheint. Musik, die noch so leise sein kann: Sie hat eine fesselnde Kraft. Und das liegt auch am Gespür für die musikalischen Partner. Eine traumhafte Band hat sich...
Posted Mar 7th, 2016
From volkskrant.nl ‘Dit album is een muzikale grafsteen voor mijn vader’ *_This album is a musical tombstone for my father’*_ By Gijsbert Kamer “Avishai Cohen had liever een vrolijker aanleiding gehad voor zijn nieuwe album Into The Silence. Maar er was nu eenmaal al een soort afspraak met de platenmaatschappij. En ja, van een beetje droevige, stemmige muziek zijn ze...
Posted Mar 2nd, 2016
From jazztimes.com Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence By Bill Beuttler “Trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s beautiful, elegiac Into the Silence is a tribute to his late father, who died in 2014. Lesser life changes of a musical nature are also involved: It is his first recording as a leader for ECM (a switch from sister Anat’s Anzic label), Cohen’s playing on...
Posted Mar 1st, 2016
From allmusic.com Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence By Matt Collar “Trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s ECM debut, 2016’s Into the Silence, is a ruminative, elegiac album far — if not completely — removed from the kinetic, aggressive post-bop of his 2014 effort, Dark Nights. As with all ECM releases, Into the Silence was produced by label founder Manfred Eicher and, as...
Posted Mar 1st, 2016
From deutschlandradiokultur.de Wie der Sound einer offenen Probe As the sound of an open trial By Jonathan Scheiner “Auch “Into the Silence” von Avishai Cohen ist geprägt von der Tatsache, dass es vorab kaum beziehungsweise keine Probezeit gab. Doch schließlich wurden nur je zwei, maximal drei Versionen der insgesamt sechs Songs aufgenommen. Dadurch wirkt das Sound des Quintetts sehr unmittelbar...
Posted Feb 29th, 2016
From blueceej.tumblr.com Two ECM trumpet quartets: Avishai Cohen ‘Into the Silence’, and Ralph Alessi, ‘Quiver’ By CJ Shearn “‘Into the Silence’ by Avishai Cohen is music written by the veteran Israeli born trumpeter following the death of his father. The tunes were additionally inspired by Cohen’s listening to the music of Rachmaninoff, and he is ably assisted by a core...
Posted Feb 26th, 2016
From actuj.com Le son d’un trompettiste hors pair The sound of an outstanding trumpeter By Monic Feld “A vishaï Cohen, à ne surtout pas confondre avec son homonyme contrebassiste, est le “ petit “ dernier de trois enfants (en taille il est le plus grand, sans parler de sa longue barbe à la Herzl), nés à Tel-Aviv, d’une famille où...
Posted Feb 25th, 2016
From buffalo.com Listening Post: Monster all-star blues collection ‘God Don’t Never Change;’ Avishai Cohen’s ‘Into the Silence’ By Staff “The influence of Miles Davis on other musicians ‘” especially trumpet players ‘” has always been one of the most fascinating subjects in jazz. His inimitable sound, both Harmon-muted and unmuted, is seldom essayed by any trumpet player because it’s so...
Posted Feb 19th, 2016
from mixcloud.com/JazzStandard Following the release of Into The Silence, critically acclaimed trumpeter Avishai Cohen talks to Tina Edwards. He shares personal stories about his childhood and the relationship he had with his late Father, as well as telling us what makes his native city of Tel Aviv such a vibrant place for musicians. We pick out our favourite tune from...
Posted Feb 18th, 2016
From the greenmanreview.com Avishai Cohen’s Into The Silence “Seeing Cohen fronting a quartet in mid-2015 didn’t prepare me for the quiet impact of this quite different set of music. It did, however, prepare me to recognize the 30-something Cohen as a disciple of (among others) Miles Davis. So the opening section of the first track here, ‘Life and Death,’ with...
Posted Feb 17th, 2016
From classicalite.com Avishai Cohen Dares to Go ‘Into The Silence,’ ECM Records [REVIEW] By Mike Greenblatt “The mournful sad tones of Avishai of the Cohens liken the leader to Miles Davis: muted, underscored with piano/bass/drums plus tenor sax, and filled with a longing that won’t ever go away. The sibling Cohens of Israel-clarinetist/saxophonist sister Anat, sax man brother Yuval and...
Posted Feb 16th, 2016
From allaboutjazz.com Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence By Karl Ackermann “Besides being Cohen’s finest composing and playing to date, Into the Silence is an extraordinary project on every level. There is a transcendence in this music that is both uplifting and heartbreaking. The group plays as one, they genuinely feel an appreciation of humanity and life-changing ramifications of loss. The...
Posted Feb 14th, 2016
from nrwjazz.net # 20 triumph over transience By: Karl Lippegaus The album’s title “Into the Silence” refers to the transient, the death, the silence. It’s about a sense region that lies beyond the verbal and can if ever expressed only through music. Or through images. Someone is no longer there – you can not hear his or her voice in...
Posted Feb 12th, 2016
From blurtonline.com AVISHAI COHEN ‘” Into the Silence By Michael Toland “Trumpeter Avishai Cohen made his name with a pair of outfits: the family band 3 Cohens Sextet and the aggressively improvisational trio Triveni. For his latest solo album, however, he moves into a more contemplative, even melancholy mood. Into the Silence pays tribute to the Tel Aviv-born/NYC-based composer’s late...
Posted Feb 12th, 2016
From allmusic.com AllMusic Review by Matt Collar By Matt Collar “Trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s ECM debut, 2016’s Into the Silence, is a ruminative, elegiac album far — if not completely — removed from the kinetic, aggressive post-bop of his 2014 effort, Dark Nights. As with all ECM releases, Into the Silence was produced by label founder Manfred Eicher and, as such,...
Posted Feb 12th, 2016
from allaboutjazz.com Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence By: Mark Sullivan 4 Stars Trumpeter Avishai Cohen makes his ECM leader debut with Into the Silence, an album dedicated to the memory of his late father. Cohen composed the melodies over six months following his father’s passing in November 2014, inspired by an album of Rachmaninoff’s solo piano music. It’s not always...
Posted Feb 10th, 2016
From somethingelsereviews.com Avishai Cohen ‘” Into The Silence (2016) By S. Victor Aaron “Recently ECM Records founder and head honcho Manfred Eicher has been corralling some of the most talented jazz musicians working in NYC into his record label: the additions of Tim Berne, Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn and Ches Smith have given this traditionally Euro-centered label a tilt toward...
Posted Feb 10th, 2016
from ukvibe.org Avishai Cohen ‘Into The Silence’ (ECM) 5/5 By: Mike Gates ‘Into the silence’ is trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s debut as leader for the ECM label, and what a breathtaking album it is. The six compositions were written by Cohen during the six months that followed his father’s passing in November 2014. During his father’s final few weeks, Cohen listened...
Posted Feb 9th, 2016
from sueddeutsche.de Der Melancooliker By: Andrian Kreye Es ist für einen Trompeter mit Hang zur Melancholie wie Avishai Cohen nicht leicht, dem Schatten von Miles Davis zu entkommen. Man stutzt bei seinem neuen Album “Into The Silence” (ECM) auch erst einmal. Da spielt er gleich zu Beginn auf der gestopften Trompete Linien über Pausen, mit denen die Rhythmusgruppe fast stärkere...
Posted Feb 8th, 2016
From theepochtimes.com Immigrants: A Blessing to Our American Music By Barry Bassis ‘I could easily write a book about Israeli jazz musicians or at least a chapter on The Three Cohens, two brothers and a sister from Tel Aviv, who have achieved stardom together and separately. Anat Cohen has been leading Downbeat polls as the top clarinet player for years,...
Posted Feb 7th, 2016
From lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com CD Review: Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence. “The music was composed 6 months after the death of his father. The opening track Life and Death sets the tone of the entire album – brooding, melancholy, sensitive and moving. Dream Like a Child is a reference to how his father’s family couldn’t afford to give him music lessons...
Posted Feb 7th, 2016
From allaboutjazz.com Avishai Cohen: Into The Silence By Mark Sullivan “Trumpeter Avishai Cohen makes his ECM leader debut with Into the Silence, an album dedicated to the memory of his late father. Cohen composed the melodies over six months following his father’s passing in November 2014, inspired by an album of Rachmaninoff’s solo piano music. It’s not always sad music’“this...
Posted Feb 5th, 2016
from deutschlandfunk.de The trumpeter Avishai Cohen By: Karl Lippegaus No doubt, Avishai Cohen has long been “arrived” – as a leader, co-leader and sideman. “Dark Nights” is his seventh album in a trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. The living in New York trumpeter from Israel a strong feeling for an exciting mix of modern original compositions,...
Posted Feb 3rd, 2016
from thejazzbreakfast.com Avishai Cohen ‘” Into The Silence By: Peter Bacon I first came across ‘the other’ Avishai Cohen in 2008 when I descended the stairs of Smalls, the little club in Greenwich Village, and found the trumpeter leading a band on that stage backed by the delightful photo of another trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. To read the full article click...
Posted Feb 1st, 2016
Hearing Avishai Cohen play on the recording session for Mark Turner’s recent Lathe of Heaven album, producer Manfred Eicher was struck by the trumpeter’s contribution at once. ‘I immediately liked Avishai’s tone, his phrasing, his energy and purity of sound,’ he said. Now comes Cohen’s ECM leader debut with Into the Silence, an album dedicated to the memory of his...
Posted Jan 29th, 2016
from derstandard.at Album of the Week: Avishai Cohen “Into The Silence” All pieces that Avishai Cohen for Into The Silence (ECM) wrote, created in those six months after the death of his father. They are of elegiac, poetic tinge, and Cohen she has framed in epic sweeping compositions that come along dreamily as a whole. Dream Like A Child takes...
Posted Jan 28th, 2016
From volkskrant.nl Into The Silence is fraai, ingehouden en stemmig Into The Silence is beautiful, understated and demure By Gijsbert Kamer “Je wordt meteen gegrepen door het samenspel van Cohen, met gedempte trompet, en pianist Yonathan Avishai, waarmee het album opent. Het kwintet van Miles Davis van pakweg 1956 is de referentie. Maar Cohen loopt met zijn eigen akoestische band...
Posted Jan 27th, 2016
From jazztimes.com Review: South Africa’s Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival By Christopher Loudon ‘Moving from the disappointing to the sublime, the Cohen clan’“tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Anat, soprano saxophonist Yuval and trumpeter Avishai, teamed with pianist Yonathan Avishai, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.’“shaped the tightest, smartest, most satisfying set of the entire festival. Highlights: a dark,...
Posted Oct 9th, 2015
Womex recently announced Trumpeter, Avishai Cohen’s Triveni as one of their 2015 showcase selections.
Posted Jun 25th, 2015
Can there be any doubt that the Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival achieved critical mass this year? The third annual event ran nine days and spanned the city north to south (plus Evanston), culminating on Friday night with trumpeter Avishai Cohen drawing a capacity crowd to the Old Town School of Folk Music’s Szold Hall. It was a fitting...
Posted May 23rd, 2015
From EL PAÃS La oscuridad de Avishai Cohen El cantante y músico israelí propone ‘Dark Nights, Darker Days’ Es el título de una canción. Pero bien podría ser la banda sonora del último lustro: Dark nights, Darker Days (Noches oscuras, días más oscuros) es el nombre del tema que el músico israelí Avishai Cohen ha escogido para grabar en The...
Posted Apr 28th, 2015
From de Volkskrant Trompettist Cohen in fabelachtig goede vorm By: Gijsbert Kamer De hedendaagse jazz kent twee grootheden met dezelfde naam: Avishai Cohen. De een speelt bas, de ander trompet. Op dit moment is het Cohen de trompettist die langs de Nederlandse podia gaat met zijn trio Triveni. Donderdag, tijdens het tweede concert van de Europese tour die een maand...
Posted Feb 21st, 2015
From The Woodshed 50 Killer Living Trumpet Players: Chad & Mike’s Excellent Adventure By: Mike Lebrun Top 50 Trumpeters [Chad] Melodically, trumpet-ly, so much tradition. He’s both rooted and forward-looking at the same time. To read the full list, click here
Posted Feb 5th, 2015
From Miss Olivine Avishai Cohen, la trompeta Hipster del Jazz By: Damon Bradley Avishai Cohen es un trompetista israelí de jazz que desarrolla su trabajo partiendo de los postulados del post-bop, influido por Miles David, y sobre todo con John Coltrane a la cabeza, fuentes a las que le añade además fuertes elementos del jazz más contemporáneo así como de...
Posted Jan 18th, 2015
From ukvibe Welcome to ukvibe’s BEST JAZZ ALBUMS OF 2014 There have been many alternative ‘Best Of’ lists these past few weeks; DownBeat sighted Sonny Rollins, Dave Holland and The Bad Plus as their top three. Many included Pat Metheny Unity Group, Ambrose Akinmusire, Kris Bowers and Takuya Kuroda in their lists. Big names like Keith Jarrett, Wayne Shorter, Pat...
Posted Jan 5th, 2015
From Jazzism Jazz Not Jazz #1 2015, De Lijstjes Een selectie van de individuele lijstjes voor Jazz Not Jazz uit Jazzism #1 2015 Mike Bindraban (Good Music Company) 1. Butcher Brown – All Purpose Music (Jellowstone/Ropeadope) 2. FORQ – FORQ (GroundUP/Ropeadope) 3. Avishai Cohen – Dark Nights (Anzic) 4. Erik Truffaz – Being Human Being (Two Gentlemen) 5. Indigo Jam...
Posted Jan 1st, 2015
From The Telegraph Avishai Cohen’s Triveni, Vortex Jazz Club, review: ‘clear what all the fuss is about’ By: Ivan Hewett The Israeli trumpeter revealed himself to be a magnificent player and composer who sits squarely in the great jazz tradition, says Ivan Hewett Not to be confused with the well-known bass player of the same name, this tall, smilingly benign...
Posted Dec 15th, 2014
From The Boston Globe Jon Garelick’s 2014 best jazz album picks By: Jon Garelick 10. AVISHAI COHEN ‘Dark Nights’ Trumpeter Cohen here augments his Triveni trio (bassist Omer Avital, drummer Nasheet Waits) on various tracks with his sister Anat on clarinet, pianist Gerald Clayton, and (on the standard ‘I Fall in Love Too Easily’) singer Keren Ann. Among these 10,...
Posted Dec 15th, 2014
From Against The Silence Avishai Cohen ‘” Dark Nights (Anzic Records) By: ΜÏάμÏηϒ ΚοΓϓÏάνηϒ Τι να γυÏεÏουμε άÏαγε σϓιϒ δικÎÏ’ μαϒ νÏχϓεϒ; Τι άΓΓο αÏÏŒ μια χαÏαμάδα ΓιγόϓεÏου ÏƒÎºÎ¿Ï“Î±Î´Î¹Î¿Ï ÎºÎ±Î¹ μια νόϓα ÏεÏισσόϓεÏηϒ σιωÏήϒ, ÏÏοεÏχόμενα αÏÏŒ Îνα κΓεισϓό ÏαÏάθυÏο με ανοιχϓά μάϓια και αυϓιά. Καϓά Îναν μαγικό Ï“ÏÏŒÏο μια μουσική μÏοÏεί να δώσει ϓην εφήμεÏη Îσϓω ΓÏση. Κάϓι Ïου να...
Posted Dec 3rd, 2014
From Winnipeg Free Press Avishai Cohen’s Triveni – Dark Nights By Chris Smith THIS is the third disc by the trio of trumpeter Avishai Cohen, bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits, and it diverges from the first two by including guest musicians and features Cohen using electronic effects and overdubs. The superb quality of the compositions and performance remains...
Posted Nov 6th, 2014
From Music & Literature A Conversation with Avishai Cohen By: Jesse Ruddock Avishai Cohen has been working since he was ten, when his job was to stand on a soap box and play trumpet for a big band. Raised in Tel Aviv, the youngest of three jazz prodigies in one house, his music is persistently lyrical, often sublime, and intensely...
Posted Oct 29th, 2014
From Wondering Sound New Jazz This Week: Marianne Trudel, Eva Kruse, Avishai Cohen and More By: Dave Sumner For the second week in a row, some late Best of 2014 contenders state their claim. Two qualities reflect most of this week’s list of recommendations: strong musicianship and fun fun music. You just can’t overvalue the potency of serious music that’s...
Posted Oct 29th, 2014
Rising-Star Trumpeter Avishai Cohen Presents Dark Nights, the Much-Anticipated Third Album from his Electrifying Trio Triveni with Bassist Omer Avital & Drummer Nasheet Waits Special Guests on Dark Nights Include Clarinet Superstar Anat Cohen, Grammy-Nominated Pianist Gerald Clayton & Hit Vocalist Keren Ann Cohen’s seventh album as a leader ‘” to be released October 28, 2014 (August in Japan, September...
Posted Oct 28th, 2014
From Downbeat Magazine Avishai Cohen’s Triveni: Dark Nights By: John Corbett This is a honey of a record. It’s got everything you could want from a devastating young band: complete command, interaction dynamics, a sense of play and adventure, and a wonderfully surprising track list. Add to it Avishai Cohen’s penetrating voice on trumpet, and you need nothing more. It’s...
Posted Oct 24th, 2014
From All About Jazz Avishai Cohen: Dark Nights By: Vincenzo Roggero Disco dalle atmosfere notturne, e non poteva essere diversamente visto il titolo, Dark Nights è stato registrato in una sola giornata, con la musica scritta da Avishai Cohen suonata per la prima volta senza prove o accordi preventivi. Rilassatezza e spontaneità sono dunque le parole d’ordine della registrazione che...
Posted Oct 24th, 2014
From Die Zeit Ein Teil der großen Schwingung sein By: Ulrich Stock Man möchte ja auch wissen, wo die Musik herkommt. Kommt sie aus Käfighaltung? Aus biologisch-dynamischem Anbau? Kann man sie guten Gewissens hören? Die neue, dritte Platte von Triveni beantwortet diese Fragen vor dem ersten Ton, denn der Trompeter und Gründer des Ensembles, Avishai Cohen, legt in den Liner...
Posted Oct 23rd, 2014
From Jazz History Online AVISHAI COHEN’S TRIVENI: ‘DARK NIGHTS’ By: Thomas Cunniffe For many jazz musicians, recordings are an important part of their career, and they take extraordinary care to bring the music as close to perfection as possible. Other musicians, like trumpeter Avishai Cohen, take the opposite approach, letting their reflections capture how their music sounded on one particular...
Posted Oct 22nd, 2014
From Exiled in Eugene Avishai Cohen’s Triveni ‘Dark Nights’ (2014 Anzic) By: Joshua Finch I’m not exactly a jazz aficionado, so know that when I say that Dark Nights is my favorite jazz record of 2014 so far, it’s only stacked up against about 5 other records. However, you may also take into account that I’m a picky bastard with...
Posted Oct 16th, 2014
From Jazz Weekly Avishai Cohen’s Triveni: Dark Nights By: George W. Harris Trumpeter Avishai Cohen once again teams up with drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Omer Avital for some loose as a goose compositions and jazz tunes. A fragile Kenny Dorham-reminiscent tone and delivery is palpable throughout as his horn cries on’You IN All Directions’ and moans on ‘Dark Nights,...
Posted Oct 13th, 2014
From Sept Tempest October Recommendations (Part 1) By: Richard B. Kamins “Dark Nights” is the 3rd recording by Avisahi Cohen’s Triveni, the trumpeter’s trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. The ensemble’s first 2 CDs were recorded on the same day but released 18 months apart. Since that time, Cohen has toured with his sister Anat and brother...
Posted Oct 12th, 2014
From ecmrecords.com Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven Mark Turner: Tenor Saxophone Avishai Cohen: Trumpet Joe Martin: Double Bass Marcus Gilmore: Drums Track Listing: Lathe of Heaven Year of the Rabbit Ethan’s Line The Edenist Sonnet for Stevie Brother Sister 2 Mark Turner is one of the most admired saxophonists of his generation, renowned for his exploratory intellect and intimate expressivity...
Posted Sep 18th, 2014
from larepubliquedujazz.com Les nuits noires d’Avishai Cohen By: de Georges Kiosseff Tout frais reçu de NYC dans la boîte à lettres de La République du Jazz , sorti chez le label ANZIC, le nouveau CD du trompettiste Avishai Cohen, DARK NIGHTS , son septième album. Autour d’Avishai, constituant l’électrique trio Triveni , on trouve Omer Avital à la basse et...
Posted Sep 15th, 2014
from allaboutjazz.com Avishai Cohen – Trumpet: Dark Nights (2014) By: Franz A. Matzner From the brooding opening title track to the closing Chet Baker homage, “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” Dark Nights unapologetically embraces the heart of jazz. Every aspect of the album’“from the cover photo, to Cohen’s precise trumpet inflections, to the trio’s dedication to immediacy and collective...
Posted Sep 5th, 2014
From All About Jazz “OC” By Avishai Cohen – Trumpet A free-minded tribute to Ornette Coleman, “The OC” by trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s third album from his electrifying trio Triveni with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits out on October 28, 2014. Cohen, is joined on the album not only by his powerhouse rhythm mates but also by three special...
Posted Aug 27th, 2014
from jazztimes.com Siena Jazz Summer Workshops 2014: Hang. Eat. Study. Jam. By: Thomas Conrad Visiting the Siena Jazz Workshops is not exactly like going to a jazz festival. In some ways it is better. It is mellower. You get a few hours sleep every night. Siena may be Italy’s most beautiful hill town. The pasta rocks, especially the pici. And...
Posted Aug 13th, 2014
from jpost.com Three cool cats make up the Cohen jazz trifecta By: Barry Davis Members of bands that stay in business for a long time ‘” and they are generally few and far between ‘” often talk about having a sense of kinship. That includes the squabbles as well as the closeness and the shared creative nous. Jazz trumpeter Avishai...
Posted Jun 9th, 2014
from chicagoreader.com Fat-toned trombonist Reut Regev among the highlights of the Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival By: Peter Margasak The second Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival kicked off on Tuesday, but some of the best shows take place in the coming week. In this week’s paper I wrote a preview of Sunday’s concert by the trio led by...
Posted May 19th, 2014
from chicagoreader.com Trumpeter, Avishai Cohen Trio By: Peter Margasak The saxophone trio is one of jazz’s great proving grounds’“everything the horn player does is laid bare atop the rhythm section. You don’t hear much about trumpet trios, and for good reason’“the format’s demands are so great that most musicians shy away from it. A trumpet generally requires more air and...
Posted May 5th, 2014
from writteninmusic.com TRIVENI AVISHAI COHEN: STORM VOOR DE STORM By: Henning Bolte Voor afgelopen weekend gaf het KNMI een weeralarm uit: code geel. Zware windstoten, 120km/h. Het Bimhuis liep al een dag eerder bijna helemaal onder van de toestroom van publiek naar het concert van het trio van trompettist Avishai Cohen. Het huis zat nokvol met een rijk geschakeerd publiek...
Posted Feb 18th, 2014
from jazzenzo.nl Groove is leading the way in quest for balance By: Armand van Wyck “One more time”, says Avishai Cohen rhythm section that he quietly groove late drop during the opening number. A heavy, slow bass line brings the audience slowly into a trance. Then the first notes sounded by the trumpets: laid back , quiet, sultry, with full...
Posted Feb 11th, 2014
From Jazzism Avishai Cohen Geen ‘standaard’ vertolker By: Angelique Van Os Dark Night, Het derde album van trompettist Avishai Cohen (1978) en diens Triveni Trio, is on the spot opgenomen; twaalf songs in één dag. ‘De eerste takes zijn veelal de beste.’ Het lijkt gekkenwerk om in slechts één dag twaalf composities op te nemen met drie gastmusici en zelf...
Posted Jan 1st, 2014
from jja.camp8.org The Jazz Journalist Association released their best of 2013 list last week and the 3 Cohens latest release Tightrope was ranked at number 2. To read the full list click here
Posted Dec 11th, 2013
from winnipegfreepress.com Tightrope (Anzic Records) By: Chris Smith THE 3 Cohens are many things: improvisers, composers, great musicians and figurative tightrope walkers. Siblings Anat (tenor saxophone, clarinets), Avishai (trumpet) and Yuval (soprano sax) play mostly a cappella on Tightrope, their fourth recording. The three have uncanny musical rapport, and their emphasis on horns-only music and improvisation here cements the chemistry...
Posted Nov 10th, 2013
from ajwnews.com 3 Cohens are back again with their horns By: Mordecai Specktor The 3 Cohens – Anat, Yuval and Avishai – play their horns (saxophones, clarinet and trumpet) unaccompanied on most of the 18 tracks that comprise their new album, Tightrope (Anzic). The siblings from Tel Aviv, who play together and with various other ensembles, have developed a sort...
Posted Oct 20th, 2013
_ from allaboutjazz.com_ 3 Cohens: Tightrope (2013) By: Dan Bilawsky It shouldn’t come as a shock that the 3 Cohens stress the idea of interconnectedness in their music; soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen, multi-reedist Anat Cohen and trumpeter Avishai Cohen are, after all, blood. With albums like One (Anzic, 2004), Braid (Anzic, 2007) and Family (Anzic, 2011), these three horn-playing siblings...
Posted Oct 16th, 2013
from londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com Thoughts on the trumpet, and live jazz, and fading stars. This is an LJC ‘indulge me’ postscript. So much of my listening to modern jazz has been on vinyl, a riveting set at the Nice Jazz Festival this week by Omer Avital, featuring Avishai Cohen on trumpet, brought me up sharply. I had heard the trumpet by Miles...
Posted Jul 15th, 2013
from cultura.elpais.com An Israeli Jazz Prophret Bu: Seisedos Iker Spread these days a kind in the world of jazz in Spain (as in need of good news) which tells of a prodigious Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen called (not to be confused with the bassist of the same name and nationality). He was able to give hope to fans during a...
Posted May 20th, 2013
from jazztimes.com Catching Up with Trumpeter Avishai Cohen By: Marta Ramon Trumpeter Avishai Cohen has emerged in the past decade as one of the rising stars of jazz. The brother of saxophonist/clarinetist Anat and saxophonist Yuval Cohen, he he attended the Berklee College of Music in the late ’90s and placed third in the 1997 Thelonious Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition,...
Posted May 9th, 2013
from irishtimes.com Avishai Cohen: Triveni II By: Cormac Larkin For a trumpeter, it takes more than a little chutzpah to dispense with any chordal instrument and negotiate the sparse terrain of the jazz trio. But then, Israeli-born Avishai Cohen (whose name is always followed by the word ‘trumpeter’ to distinguish him from the bassist of the same name) is by...
Posted Apr 12th, 2013
_from Birth of the cool Israeli By: Mordecai Spektor Avishai Cohen is feeling under the weather. During a recent telephone interview with the AJW from his home in Tel Aviv, he sounds a little groggy, and he apologizes for his diminished physical state. Hopefully, Cohen, who has emerged as a dazzling trumpeter on the jazz scene, will recuperate in time...
Posted Mar 13th, 2013
from southflorida.com 3 Cohens, many influences By: Bob Weinberg George Wein’s Newport All-Stars seemed a bit out of place among the percussive, groove-heavy lineup of San Juan’s 2010 Heineken Jazz Fest. How would a bluesy, traditional jazz group fare amidst a roster of Latin-jazz superstars? And yet, when the band’s clarinetist, the Israeli-born Anat Cohen, started blowing hot ‘n’ sweet...
Posted Feb 4th, 2013
from examiner.com Your last best list of the year’s jazz recordings By: Neil Tesser ‘Triveni II’ (Anzic). With this recording (the second by this trio), Israeli-born Avishai Cohen does for the trumpet what Sonny Rollins did in his saxophone-led trios of the late 50s: he displays a sense of orchestration, and an awareness of the extra-melodic capabilities of his instrument,...
Posted Jan 24th, 2013
Avishai Cohen’s “Triveni II”, the second release from his triofeaturing Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits was featured on the Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader) and Dan Bilawsky’s (All About Jazz) year end top 10 lists. To see Peter’s full list click here To see Dan’s full list click here
Posted Dec 28th, 2012
blogs.ottawacitizen.com Three top-notch trumpet discs (Avishai Cohen, Ron Miles, Nadje Noordhuis CDs reviewed) By: Peter Hum As they say in my wife’s mother tongue, trumpeter Avishai Cohen, bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits ‘pétent le feu.’ That more prosaically means, ‘bursting with energy,’ my non-francophone friends, and indeed, there might not be a more wonderfully in-your-face, rhythmically and melodically...
Posted Dec 20th, 2012
from blogs.opb.org Top 10 Albums of 2012 By: Matt Fleeger The 3 Cohen siblings (Yuval, Anat, Avishai) showcase their abilities for songwriting, playing and passionate improvisation on this swinging, hard-driving release. Guest vocalist Jon Hendricks joins the band for a couple of tunes ‘” making this album a diverse, and solid, listen the whole way through. There’s something special about...
Posted Dec 11th, 2012
from nippertown.com AVISHAI COHEN – Triveni II By: J Hunter Don’t let the Roman numerals fool you: Triveni II is not, specifically, a sequel. It seems that the 2009 sessions that gave us Avishai Cohen’s divine disc Introducing Triveni produced enough music for two whole releases. As such, the cataclysmic trumpeter’s latest offering is (thankfully) closer to ‘Kill Bill’ than...
Posted Nov 27th, 2012
from jpost.com Excerpt from Concert review: Madeleine Peyroux By: Avi Hoffman Peyroux invited top Israeli jazzman Avishai Cohen to to join her in several songs and his trumpet paralleled her voice in compelling duos. Mori, her bassist, is Israeli and when she invited leading local saxophonist Eli Dejibri to jam with them in the final song ‘Careless Love,’ the crowd...
Posted Nov 14th, 2012
from thecrimson.com Avishai Cohen Fuses Jazz With Israeli Roots Israeli trumpeter comes to perform at the Regattabar By: Tree A. Palmedo ‘People like to hear people analyze their own music,’ says Avishai Cohen, calmly sipping an espresso before a sound check at Cambridge’s Regattabar last Thursday. ‘Today,’ he says, ‘it’s like the better you talk about your music, the more...
Posted Nov 13th, 2012
from downbeat.com Avishai Cohen, Triveni II (Anzic) By: Frank Alkyer Introducing Triveni was one of my favorite records of 2010. It was an introduction to trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s new trio with bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. So it’s no surprise that Triveni II, recorded during the same two-day recording session in Brooklyn, delivers another powerful set. Triveni II...
Posted Nov 8th, 2012
from jazzchill.blogspot.com AVISHAI COHEN -TRIVENI II By: Dusty Groove Amazing work from trumpeter Avishai Cohen ‘” working here with his Triveni trio, and sounding even more powerful than on the first release from that group! The combo features incredible bass from Omer Avital ‘” a player we’ve really come to love in recent years ‘” and rocketing drums from Nasheet...
Posted Oct 31st, 2012
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen, voted a Rising Star in this year’s DownBeat Critics Poll, releases Triveni II in October 2012 via Anzic Records. It’s his second album with Triveni ‘” his bold, electrifying trio with double-bassist Omer Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. Triveni II is the follow-up to Introducing Triveni, which New York City Jazz Record called ‘easily one of the...
Posted Oct 30th, 2012
from jazzhistoryonline.com Anat and Avishai Cohen at the Wolf Theatre, Denver (October 27, 2012) By: Thomas Cunniffe It is a rare treat for us in the hinterlands to hear live authentic jazz from Brooklyn. There are several progressive sub-genres developing inthat New York borough, and the Cohen family—clarinetist Anat, trumpeter Avishai and saxophonist Yuval—are at the forefront of those ideas....
Posted Oct 25th, 2012
from somethingelsereviews.com Avishai Cohen ‘” Triveni II (2012) By: S. Victor Aaron For Triveni II, Avishai Cohen (the trumpet player, not the bass dude), the stated intention of this record was to recreate the feeling Cohen got from listening to Billie Holiday: ‘a feeling that’s pure, simple and honest.’ That’s the same vibe I get from listening to Cohen’s Triveni...
Posted Oct 24th, 2012
allaboutjazz.com Avishai Cohen: Triveni II (2012) By: Dan Bilawsky Trumpeter Avishai Cohen had already reached the upper echelons of the jazz world when he put Triveni into motion, but this trio’s debut’“Introducing Triveni (Anzic Records, 2010)’“still managed to mark a quantum leap in his artistry. The Israeli-born horn man first made stateside ripples when he placed third in the Thelonious...
Posted Oct 2nd, 2012
The Red Hot Chili Peppers played to an excited crowd of 55,000 people in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday. IMN’s own Avishai Cohen set in on a few tunes with them. Check out the picture here below!
Posted Sep 13th, 2012
jazztimes.com Third World Love Songs and Portraits Omer Avital can instigate a band like few bass players. He has quietly become an important bassist-bandleader in the tradition of Charles Mingus and Dave Holland. Avishai Cohen, with his tantalizing tart tone and well-formed fresh ideas, may be the most underrated trumpet player in jazz. They are two of the co-leaders here....
Posted Aug 9th, 2012
Downbeat Magazine recently released their 60th Annual Critic’s Poll. IMN’s Avishai Cohen took home the top spot for Rising Star on the Trumpet Congratulations Avishai!
Posted Jun 30th, 2012
Trumpeter Avishai Cohen and pianist Yonathan Avishai have been outstanding global jazz ambassadors throughout their careers, performing in the top jazz clubs and festivals from New York to Tokyo, after meeting as boys in their shared home of Tel Aviv. The two musicians have known each other for over two decades and founded the quartet Third World Love together in 2002. Now living in France, Yonathan Avishai’s lyrical piano playing can be heard on his friend Avishai Cohen’s highly praised ECM releases Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver. With a tremendous and intensively focused sound on trumpet, Cohen’s improvisations skillfully brings to life the spirit of such jazz icons as Don Cherry, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman. Now, for the first time, Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai perform as a duo with jazz standards and original compositions (recorded by Manfred Eicher and release on ECM in the Fall of 2019), which fascinatingly reflect the world-music-rich experience of the two musicians.
With rhythmic tweaks and quirks blended in, he is now a standout trumpeter in contemporary jazz with a strong personal voice.
Financial Times
There’s still room in jazz for an acoustic quartet playing thorough, pensive, slowly mounting music. And for the voice of a starkly affecting trumpeter.
The New York Times
Cohen’s playing brims with charisma, at one point calling Wynton Marsalis to mind, while the piano solo deepens a bittersweet intrigue.
WBGO
An instrumental master and a composer of vivid originality.
The Guardian
An extravagantly skilled trumpeter [. . .] relaxed and soulful [. . .] he deftly combined sensitivity and flair.
The New York Times
Many say Cohen has assumed the spirit of the great Miles Davis, reincarnated into a powerful combination of lyricism and intellect. He among the best in world‘¦
LA Weekly
Arguably the most exciting Israeli jazz musician in the world.
The Chicago Reader
Avishai Cohen has rather quietly become one of the most creative trumpet players in jazz.
JazzTimes
Cohen is a versatile, modern master.
DownBeat
A trumpeter of rare poise and lyricism.
The Boston Globe