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Genres
  
Siblings
  
Anat Cohen


Name
  
Avishai Cohen

Website
  
avishaicohenmusic.com

Music group
  
Avishai Cohen (trumpeter) MILANO MODA UOMO SS 2013 Via Montenapoleone Milano

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, composer, bandleader

Instruments
  
Trumpet, synthesized trumpet

Labels
  
Anzic Records, Fresh Sound

Associated acts
  
SFJAZZ Collective, Lemon Juice QuartetThird World Love3 CohensTriveniTea for 3

Role
  
Musician · avishaicohenmusic.com

Albums
  
Triveni II, Introducing Triveni, After the Big Rain, The Trumpet Player

Similar People
  
Omer Avital, Anat Cohen, Daniel Freedman, Joel Frahm, Nasheet Waits

Profiles


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Avishai Cohen Is a New York City–based jazz musician and composer originally from Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Avishai Cohen (trumpeter) Tal Gamlieli Live at the Lily Pad featuring Avishai Cohen

Biography

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Cohen was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He grew up in a musical family with his saxophonist siblings: sister Anat Cohen and brother Yuval Cohen (soprano saxophone). At the age of eight Avishai asked his mother if he could begin taking trumpet lessons. At age ten, Avishai began playing with the Rimon Big Band, He recalls, "I had a box I stood on." As a teenager Avishai toured with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.

Avishai Cohen attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After graduating from Berklee, Cohen went on to win 3rd place in the Thelonious Monk jazz trumpet competition in 1997. Cohen then moved to New York City where he began developing his music alongside Jason Lindner and bassist Omer Avital at Smalls Jazz Club. He recorded his first album in 2003 with Anzic Records. The album title The Trumpet Player is titled such to avoid confusion with a jazz bassist of the same name (Avishai Cohen). Since then he has recorded with many notable jazz artists as a bandleader, co-leader, and composer. He has played with several jazz groups that include musicians from the SFJAZZ Collective. Cohen has stated that he was very heavily influenced by Miles Davis. He is married and has two children.

As leader

  • The Trumpet Player (Fresh Sound, 2003)
  • After the Big Rain (Anzic, 2007)
  • Flood (Anzic, 2008)
  • Seven (Anzic, 2008) (digital release only)
  • Introducing Triveni (Anzic, 2010)
  • Triveni II (Anzic, 2012)
  • Avishai Cohen's Triveni , Dark Nights (Anzic, 2014)
  • Into the Silence (ECM, 2016)
  • Cross My Palm With Silver (ECM, 2017)
  • Third World Love

  • Songs and Portraits (Anzic, 2012)
  • Sketch of Tel Aviv (Self+Small's, 2006)
  • Avanim (Self, 2004)
  • New Blues (Anzic, 2003)
  • Third World Love Songs (Fresh Sound, 2002)
  • 3 Cohens

  • Family (Anzic, 2011)
  • Braid (Anzic, 2007)
  • One (Self, 2003)
  • "Tightrope" (Anzic, 2013)
  • Omer Avital

  • New Song (Motéma, 2014)
  • Suite of the East (Anzic, 2012)
  • Live at Smalls (SmallsLIVE, 2011)
  • Free Forever (Smalls, 2011)
  • Arrival (Fresh Sound, 2007)
  • The Ancient Art of Giving (Smalls, 2006)
  • Marlon Browden Project (Fresh Sound, 2003)
  • Other groups

  • SFJAZZ Collective Live 2010:7th Annual Concert Tour (SFJAZZ, 2010)
  • Anat Cohen Noir (Anzic, 2006)
  • Anat Cohen Place & Time (Anzic, 2005)
  • Yuval Cohen Freedom (Anzic, 2006)
  • The Jason Lindner Big Band Live at the Jazz Gallery (Anzic, 2007)
  • Waverly 7 Yo! Bobby (Anzic, 2007)
  • Keren Ann Keren Ann (EMI France, 2007)
  • Keren Ann Nolita (Metro Blue/Blue Note, 2005 )
  • Yosvany Terry Metamorphosis (EWE+Kindred Rhythm, 2006)
  • Gregory Tardy Monuments (SteepleChase, 2011)
  • Mark Turner Lathe of Haven (ECM, 2014)
  • Shalom Hanoch - Erev Erev
  • Asaf Amdurski - Menoim Shketim
  • Assaf Amdurski - Harei At
  • Daniel Freedman - Bamako By Bus
  • Jason Lindner - Now Vs. Now
  • Jason Lindner - Live at the Jazz Gallery
  • Dafnis Prieto - Taking The Soul For a Wlak
  • References

    Avishai Cohen (trumpeter) Wikipedia