Avishai Cohen

What Avishai Cohen makes

Topics jazz, trumpet, music, composition, live-performance

Avishai Cohen is globally recognized as an ever-creative player-composer open to multiple strains of jazz - as a leader, co-leader and sideman. As touted by JazzTimes “…he can make the trumpet a vehicle for uttering the most poignant human cries.” Aside from the acclaimed work with his quartet over the last several years on ECM, and previously his trio work under the moniker Triveni, the trumpeter has also recorded and toured the world as part of the Mark Turner Quartet, the SFJAZZ Collective, Jazz100, Zakir Hussain, and the 3 Cohens Sextet – with his sister, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and brother, saxophonist Yuval. Named as the Artistic Director of the International Jerusalem Festival, Cohen has also been voted a Rising Star on three consecutive occasions in the DownBeat Critics Poll. In 2024, Cohen released his newest album, “Ashes to Gold”, a deeply introspective exploration of life’s transitions and renewal, written after the tragic events of Oct. 7th, 2023.

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