Winter Poems Yuval Cohen Quartet

• 1 First Meditation 05:25
• 2 The Dance of the Nightingale 06:36
• 3 Avia 04:48
• 4 Winter Poem 05:23
• 5 Song for Lo Am 06:24
• 6 For Charlie 04:50
• 7 The Unfolding Nature of Iris 06:21
• 8 Helech Ruach 04:04
• Total Runtime 43:51

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Das Debüt des Sopransaxophonisten Yuval Cohen bei ECM ist ein spannendes Werk, das den Bruder des langjährigen ECM-Aufnahmekünstlers Avishai Cohen im regen Zusammenspiel mit seinem QuarCohen,Yuval Quartettett präsentiert, mit dem er innovative Wege durch acht Eigenkompositionen beschreitet. Pianist Tom Oren, Bassist Alon Near und Alon Benjamini am Schlagzeug sind langjährige Begleiter Yuvals, die nicht nur selbst hervorragende Instrumentalisten sind, sondern auch ein tiefes, intuitives Verständnis für die musikalische Sprache und den improvisatorischen Ansatz des Bandleaders mitbringen. "Ich schätze mich sehr glücklich dafür, mit diesen jungen Leuten spielen zu dürfen", sagt Yuval. "Ich kenne sie schon lange – sie sind alle drei wunderbare Seelen und Talente, mit denen ich eine großartige Zeit hatte, diese Musik gemeinsam zu gestalten." Auf dem Album demonstriert der Saxophonist ein eigenständiges und einzigartiges Verständnis von kammermusikalischem Zusammenspiel mit dynamischer Nuanciertheit und erkundet ein breites Spektrum an Einflüssen. Sie reichen von Folk-Idiomen bis hin zu motivisch dichten Durchführungen, aus den Bräuchen der klassischen Musik entlehnt. Das Resultat ist eine eindrucksvolle Mischung aus lyrisch-kontemplativen Passagen und auf der anderen Seite energiegeladenen und aufwirbelnden Ausarbeitungen.

Yuval Cohen Quartett:
Yuval Cohen, Sopransaxophon, Melodica
Tom Oren, Klavier
Alon Near, Kontrabass
Alon Benjamini, Schlagzeug

Yuval Cohen Quartet
Yuval Cohen’s chamber jazz quartet is a personal take on the classical world queen: the chamber group.

Yuval Cohen, one of Israel’s main jazz artists, composed special repertoire for this band, and in a gentle transparent contrapuntal texture, Cohen finds the direct path into the hearts of his audiences.

Yuval Cohen
Soprano saxophonist, composer and bandleader Yuval Cohen, has developed his own unique sound and melodic approach to jazz composition and improvisation, creating his chamber jazz genre.

Lee Konitz, Lew Soloff, Arnie Lawrence, Reggie Workman, Anat Cohen - Avishai Cohen (3 Cohens), Omer Avital, Eric Harland, Aaron Goldberg, Jason Lindner, Matt Penman, Greg Hutchinson, Aaron Parks, Jonathan Blake, Garry Versace, Gilad Hekselman, Shai Maestro – All just a few of the wonderful world renowned figures with whom Yuval has played with. ​

Yuval is a leading figure in the Israeli jazz education.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel (1973), Yuval has studied music at the Tel Aviv Conservatory, at the School of Arts, and at the “Thelma Yellin” High School for the Arts. During his studies he was selected to perform the Glazonov Concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra, and toured Europe and Israel as a soloist. ​

In 1996 Yuval Graduated Berklee College of Music (Summa Cum Laude). While at Berklee, Yuval was awarded the college prizes for outstanding achievements and the woodwind department award. His compositions were chosen to represent the college in the prestigious journal Jazziz.

In 1997 Yuval received a full scholarship for a masters degree at the Manhattan School of Music.

Yuval’s debut CD, Freedom, received excellent critics, and is being regularly played on the Israeli radio channels.

His family band, the 3 Cohens, has4 albums, and is playing regularly in the US, Europe, South America and Israel (www.3cohens.com(

In June 2010 Yuval's second album, "Song Without Words", was released (Anzic Records). This new album, a duo with pianist Shai Maestro, received outstanding critics, and is considered one of the best jazz albums in Israel.

In July 2010 Yuval received his Masters in Composition (M.Mus) from the Rubin Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem.

In October 2010 Yuval won the prestigious Landau prize in the category of Jazz performance!

In 2013 Yuval's album "Hakol Zehavi", an intensive work on the music of Iraeli composer David Zehavi got wonderful critics, and on 2017 Yuval won the prestigious Prime minister' s award for composers in the field of Jazz.

Yuval is the head of the jazz studies department Jerusalem academy for Music and Dance, head of the jazz studies at the Israeli conservatory of Tel Aviv, a teacher at the Thelma Yellin high school of the arts, and at the New School branch at the Tel Aviv Music Conservatory.

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