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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...
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 through his smartphone, were radiant. Cohen ...
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 ...
For everyone who's still figuring it out.
The annual Winter Jazzfest returns to various NYC venues in 2016 from January 13-17. Since we last spoke, the lineup added a bunch of other artists, including Naytronix, Red Baraat, Sun Ra Arkestra, ...