AVISHAI COHEN
(Booking in North America)
PROJECTS:
Avishai Cohen:
Avishai Cohen (trpt), Yonathan Avishai (p), Barak Mori (b), Ziv Ravitz (d)
*New Album on ECM 2024
Avishai Cohen’s BIG VICIOUS:
Avishai Cohen (trpt), Uzi Ramirez (g), Yonatan Albalak (b), Aviv Cohen (d), Ziv Ravitz (d)
Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai Duo
Avishai Cohen (trpt), Yonathan Avishai (p)
Jimi Prasad Orchestra
TBA
*Debut Album out now on Stones Throw
TOUR:
2025 - Available upon request
2026 - Available upon request
BIO:
Avishai Cohen is globally recognized as a musician with an individual sound and a questing spirit, an ever-creative player-composer open to multiple strains of jazz and active as a leader, co-leader, and sideman. Aside from the acclaimed work with his quartet over the last several years, 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.
In 2024, Cohen released his newest album, Ashes to Gold, a deeply introspective and richly textured exploration of life’s transitions and renewal. The album showcases Cohen’s ability to blend lyrical beauty with technical brilliance, further solidifying his reputation as a boundary-pushing innovator in contemporary jazz.
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.
“Cohen is a multicultural jazz musician, among whose ancestors is Miles Davis. Like Davis, he can make the trumpet a vehicle for uttering the most poignant human cries.” (JazzTimes)
“...the trumpeter conveys on stage all the nuances and inspiration of the moment.” (Télérama)
“Avishai Cohen has rather quietly become one of the most creative trumpet players in jazz.” (JazzTimes)