Into the Silence Avishai Cohen

• 1 Life and Death 09:18
• 2 Dream Like a Child 15:30
• 3 Into the Silence 12:12
• 4 Quiescence 05:10
• 5 Behind the Broken Glass 08:12
• 6 Life and Death - Epilogue 02:42
• Total Runtime 53:04

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Mit seinen Beiträgen zu Mark Turners Album »Lathe Of Heaven« hat Avishai Cohen 2014 viele Hörer beeindruckt. Nun legt der in Tel Aviv geborene Trompeter sein ECM-Debüt als Leader vor – mit impressionistischen Kompositionen für Jazzquartett, das in einigen Stücken um Tenorsaxophon erweitert wird. „Into The Silence“ ist dem Gedenken an Avishais Vater David gewidmet und reflektiert die letzten Tage in dessen Leben. Cohens gedämpfte Trompete gibt der Musik die emotionale Prägung. Der israelische Pianist Yonathan Avishai leuchtet Cohens Kompositionen mit bluesigen Phrasierungen aus. Das sensible Zusammenspiel Cohens mit Schlagzeuger Nasheet Waits erinnert an die Glanzzeiten von Miles Davis mit Tony Williams und Don Cherry mit Billy Higgins. Doch diese Musik, auch wenn sie die Quellen ihrer Inspiration durchscheinen lässt, ist ganz und gar heutig. Bassist Eric Revis, Jahrzehnte lang ein Eckpfeiler von Branford Marsalis’ Quartett, leistet elegante Unterstützung. Und Saxophonist Bill McHenry, ein subtil agierender Modernist, der mit Paul Motian und Andrew Cyrille gearbeitet hat, folgt gefühlvoll Cohens Linien. „Into The Silence“ wurde im Juli 2015 in Südfrankreich von Manfred Eicher produziert.

Avishai Cohen, Trompete
Yonathan Avishai, Klavier
Nasheet Waits, Schlagzeug
Eric Revis, Bass

Avishai Cohen
For four years running, 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, thetrumpeter was a member of the SF Jazz Collective for six years. He also records and tours the world with The 3 Cohens Sextet, the hit family band with his sister, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and brother, saxophonist Yuval. Declared All About Jazz: “To the ranks of the Heaths of Philadelphia, the Joneses of Detroit and the Marsalises of New Orleans, fans can now add the 3 Cohens of Tel Aviv.”

The trumpeter began performing in public in 1988 at age 10, playing his first solos with a big band and eventually touring with the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra to perform under the likes of maestros Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur and Kent Nagano. Having worked with Israeli folk and pop artists in his native country and appeared on television early on, 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.

Cohen first recorded for ECM as part of saxophonist Mark Turner’s quartet on Lathe of Heaven, released in September 2014. The trumpeter has performed at the Village Vanguard and beyond with Turner, as well as 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.

“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

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