Originally from Tel Aviv, Israel, Avishai Cohen is one of the great young figures on the international jazz scene today. He has shared the stage with the great Bobby Hutcherson in the San Francisco ...

AVISHAI COHEN: I’m not sure this is my most personal record, but I think it’s my best! (photo credit: Daniella Feijoo) Avishai Cohen's latest record, 'Ashes to Gold,' packs an emotional punch and will ...

Trumpeter Avishai Cohen — voted a Rising Star three years running in the DownBeat Critics Poll — has earned renown as a musician with an individual sound and a questing spirit, an ever-creative player ...

Avishai Cohen speaks as a citizen of the world. He’s a street-wise bass player, born in Israel and raised in St. Louis, who learned to hold his own in Greenwich Village jazz clubs and Latin joints in ...

"It's got a lot of tension and it makes you grow up fast in some ways and inspires you in other ways," bassist says. When it comes to jazz musicians from Israel, bassist Avishai Cohen is something of ...

In introducing singer Abraham Rodriguez Jr., Cohen lets the patrons at the Blue Note know: ‘He’s got a world of songs that he sings.’ Everyone in the room shakes to that irresistible clave beat.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Trumpeter and bandleader Avishai Cohen connected with me on Zoom recently while walking to his home in Tel Aviv, Israel. The city streets at night, as seen ...

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Jazz has been around long enough for there to be many cases of musicians sharing the same name: there was a bassist named Billy Taylor, who, most famously, played with Duke Ellington, and who had a ...

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