Trumpeter Avishai Cohen is on a rapid accent to the dizzy heights of jazz super stardom. With his debut release as a leader, with the most influencial jazz label in the world ECM, it signifies his elevation to the world of pure jazz masters.

 In February 2016, Cohen released and began touring behind his highly anticipated ECM debut, Manfred Eicher produced, Into the Silence to unanimous critical praise. A collection of expansive and impressionistic compositions for jazz quartet (trumpet, piano, bass, drums with tenor saxophone on a few pieces), Into the Silence reflects on the final moments of Avishai’s late father David’s life with a remarkable amount of restraint, grace and humility.

 Avishai Cohen

 “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.”                                              

— Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

For four years running, Cohen has been voted a Rising Star-Trumpet in the DownBeat Critics Poll. 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.

The trumpeter has performed at the Village Vanguard and beyond with Mark Turner, and 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 and in the studio with French-Israeli pop singer Keren Ann. In addition to performing, Cohen was named the Artistic Director of the International Jerusalem Festival in 2015.

Avishai Cohen - Trumpet

Yonathan Avishai - Piano

Barak Mori - Double-Bass

Nasheet Waits - Drums 

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