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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, Zakir Hussain, and the 3 Cohens Sextet – with his sister, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and brother, saxophonist Yuval.
In 2024, Cohen released his newest album, Ashes to Gold, a deeply introspective and richly textured exploration of life’s transitions and renewal. The album showcases Cohen’s ability to blend lyrical beauty with technical brilliance, further solidifying his reputation as a boundary-pushing innovator in contemporary jazz.
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.
Cohen is a multicultural jazz musician, among whose ancestors is Miles Davis. Like Davis, he can make the trumpet a vehicle for uttering the most poignant human cries.”
(JazzTimes)
“…the trumpeter conveys on stage all the nuances and inspiration of the moment.”
(Télérama)
“Avishai Cohen has rather quietly become one of the most creative trumpet players in jazz.”
(JazzTimes)
AVISHAI COHEN QUARTET
AVISHAI COHEN BIG VICIOUS
AVISHAI COHEN & YONATHAN AVISHAI
The Trumpet Player (Fresh Sound, 2003)
After the Big Rain (Anzic, 2007)
Flood (Anzic, 2008)
Seven (Anzic, 2008) (digital release only)
Introducing Triveni (Anzic, 2010)
Triveni II (Anzic, 2012)
Avishai Cohen’s Triveni, Dark Nights (Anzic, 2014)
Into the Silence (ECM, 2016)
Cross My Palm with Silver (ECM, 2017)
Playing The Room with Yonathan Avishai (ECM, 2019)
Big Vicious (ECM, 2020)
In blazing form, Avishai Cohen responds to the turbulent spirit of a troubled time, leading his dedicated band through a five-part suite that runs the gamut of emotions, by turns hopeful, despairing, outraged and profoundly melancholic. The melodic directness of the concluding “The Seventh”, composed by Avishai Cohen’s teenaged daughter Amalia, offers consoling contrast to the suite’s intensity. In between, Cohen turns his attention to the haunting Adagio assai from Ravel’s G major piano concerto, which has long been a highlight of the quartet’s concerts. Ashes to Gold was recorded in November 2023, at Studios La Buissonne, in the South of France.
