Avishai Cohen Quartet

"Cohen is a multicultural jazz musician, whose ancestors include Miles Davis. Like Davis, he can make the trumpet a vehicle to utter the most moving human cries." - Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

A year after his impressionistic work at ECM, Into The Silence (award-winning and critically acclaimed), Cross My Palm With Silver by Avishai Cohen (May 5, 2017) presents a program of new pieces that focus on the whole, in teamwork, with an exceptional quartet, with Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (bass) and Ziv Ravitz (drums). The skillful interaction between the musicians allows Avishai Cohen to rise, making it clear why this pure tone trumpet player is one of the most talked about jazz musicians in the contemporary scene.

In 2016, Cohen was named "Best Foreign Artist" by Jazz Magazine France, while Into the Silence was awarded "Best Album of the Year" by TSF Jazz and Academie du Jazz, and among the 20 best albums of the year by JazzTimes. For four consecutive years, Cohen has been voted Rising Star-Trumpet in the Down Beat Critics poll. In addition to leading his quartet, the trumpeter has led Triveni (a trio with Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits) for more than a decade; Likewise, he was a member of the prestigious San Francisco Jazz Colective for six years, and has been a featured soloist in several special ensembles, most recently in "Jazz 100" with Danilo Pérez, Lizz Wright, Chris Potter and Wycliffe Gordon. He also records and travels the world with The 3 Cohens Sextet, the successful family band with his sister, the clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and his brother, the saxophonist Yuval. Declared in All About Jazz: "To the ranks of the Philadelphia Heaths, the Joneses of Detroit and the Marsalises of New Orleans, the fans can now add the 3 Cohens of Tel Aviv."

Avishai Cohen, trumpet.

Yonathan Avishai, piano.

Barak Mori, double bass.

Ziv Ravitz, drums.