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By Krystian Mozol Top Bass Guitar Magazine – front cover and 5 page article.
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Avishai Cohen on the front cover of So Jazz
Avishai featured on the front cover of the French Magazine, SO JAZZ’s, April edition. Avishai also features throughout the magazine including a 5 page article and interview.
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The Herald (Scotland)
Jazz long ago became a worldwide musical phenomenon and nobody illustrates the point better than Israeli-born bassist Avishai Cohen. Cohen is a former employee of the great piano master Chick Corea, whose influence can be heard here along with Satie, Chopin and the profound folk music of the bassist’s native Middle East. However, Cohen has […]
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz Review by, NENAD GEORGIEVSKI. March 25th 2011 Over the past few years, bassist Avishai Cohen has become recognized as one of the most creative musicians of current times. A fertile composer of the highest rank, he has, among other things, enriched and expanded the genre he works in: a master of the […]
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Evening Standard
Evening Standard – 4* Album review by: JACK MASSARIK CDs of the Week Few double-bassists have the pulling power to tour with their own groups. Avishai Cohen, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden and the wondrous Esperanza Spalding are four distinguished exceptions, and, like Esperanza, Avishai also sings. On his latest album, the New York-based Israeli, a […]
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Vior
VOIR Weekly (Quebec) Stanley Péan 4* Né près de Jérusalem dans une famille de musiciens, Avishai Cohen a joué du piano jusqu’à l’âge de 14 ans avant de se convertir à la contrebasse, dont il est actuellement l’un des virtuoses mondiaux en jazz. Tout ce parcours est manifeste sur ce douzième album (le deuxième sous […]
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Recent Press Quotes – Seven Seas
All About Jazz – March 2011 “Seven Seas is a remarkable album; most impressive is Cohen’s clarity of vision, which is what separates the boys from men. Cohen knows what he wants and, even better, he knows how to achieve it. The album’s immediate attraction is its loose, fresh informality, a spontaneous and sparkling liveliness. […]
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Feature in Oregon Music News
Interview/Feature in Oregon Music News, 19th October 2010 with Tom D’Antoni [one_half]You get a good idea of the breadth of Avishai Cohen when you look at his credits on Aurora, his last album. They read: Arranger, Bass (Electric), Composer, Double Bass, Piano, Producer, Vocals. They don’t add that the songs are sung in English, Spanish […]
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Bassist: Avishai Cohen – Bass Guitar Magazine
By Mike Flynn – Bass Guitar Magazine Avishai Cohen… A masterful upright and electric bass player, Israeli-born Avishai Cohen has long been recognised as one of today’s master ‘doublers’ on the bass. Mike Flynn finds out more…. Written by Mike Flynn Publication: Bass Guitar Magazine
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Quotes from the World’s Press
“… one of the most gifted bassists of his generation is finding his own voice as a composer” The New Yorker “… one of the best double-bassists in the world” Kerstan Mackness, Time Out London “…a transcendent example of the capacity of music…to reach beyond geographical and political boundaries…” Don Heckman, the Los Angeles Times. […]
