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| Avishai Cohen - Jazz Trumpet Player |
| IcExcellence chosen artist Since 2004 |
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"Avishai Cohen's album The Trumpet Player...is a thrown gauntlet....He's got some of the confident tone and rhythm of Clifford Brown under his fingers, and plays battling, hard-hitting figures and intervals."
Ben Ratliff, Sunday New York Times, Oct. 2003
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Avishai Cohen started playing the trumpet at age eight, and by age ten began performing with the Rimon College Big Band.
He studied at the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Conservatory and soon afterwards embarked on a world tour with the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestros Zubin Mehta and Kent Nagano. After graduating from Thelma Yellin High School
for the Arts, he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a full scholarship, and was awarded the Clark Terry Prize. In 1997, he placed third in the prestigious Thelonius Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition, and second in the Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Competition.
Avishai has participated in various jazz, rock and pop projects as well as studio and television programs, and has recorded with leading Israeli artists such as Gidi Gov, Shalom Chanoch and Arik Einstein. He has likewise performed with international artists such as Dave Liebman, James Moody, John Hendrix, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove and many others.
Avishai has been performing with the New York based avant-funk band Lemon Juice Quartet since 1997. They released three albums together. He also recently recorded a
second album with the Third World Love Band, with Omer Avital, Daniel
Freedman and Yonatan Avishai.
His own first album, "The Trumpet Player,"
released in 2003 (with Jeff Ballard, John Sullivan and Joel Frahm), was chosen by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times for the Sunday Times Playlist.
For more information and samples of Avishai's music please visit: www.avishaicohenmusic.com
IcExcellence is supporting Avishai in tailor-made artistic programs, and providing special career advancement consulting.
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"What a pleasure to hear an emerging musician put out a record with the real spirit of what I consider jazz to be. That is the spontaneous, risk taking attitude which a listener should feel immediately and is a trademark of the masters of jazz. Real playing in real time."
Dave Liebman, Saxophonist
"...melodic imagination and a powerful drive. He writes impressively, too....Cohen has done himself no favors by making such an outstanding album for his own name debut: he'll need to bust a gut to better it."
Barry Witherden, Jazz Review, Nov. 2003
"Israeli-born trumpeter Avishai Cohen is now an emerging local horn hero and this is his great new strong debut disc."
Downtown Music Gallery, Nov. 2003
"In his debut album, Cohen shows maturity and self-confidence...this album is courageous and impressive."
Ben Shalev, Haaretz, Nov. 2003
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