1970 Avishai Cohen

• 1 Song of Hope 03:45
• 2 My Lady 03:11
• 3 It's Been so Long 03:56
• 4 Se'i Yona 04:18
• 5 Emptiness 03:27
• 6 For No One 03:14
• 7 Motherless Child 02:58
• 8 D'ror Yikra 03:50
• 9 Move on 03:34
• 10 Ha'ahava 03:54
• 11 Vamonos Pa'l Monte 05:43
• 12 Blinded 03:41
• Total Runtime 45:31

Info for 1970

1970 ist Avishai Cohens „Pop-Album“. Der langjährige Bassist von Chick Corea, der auch schon Alicia Keys oder Bobby McFerrin begleitete, präsentiert sich auf 1970 als Band-Leader und Sänger. „Es ist kein Jazz-Album“, erklärt Cohen, „Ich weiß nicht was es ist, aber ich hatte immer eine Verbindung zum Pop. Ich mag Pop genauso wie ich Bach und Charlie Parker mag. Singen ist mir im Laufe meines Lebens immer wichtiger geworden und ich wurde von vielen Leuten gefragt, wann mein Vokal-Album kommen wird. Nun, hier ist es!“

In den 12 Stücken von 1970 verbindet Cohen unterschiedliche musikalische Einflüsse zu einem einmaligen Sound. Elemente des Soul, Funk und der traditionellen Musik des Nahen Ostens verschmilzt er im Klang seiner großen Band, in der neben klassischen Rock-Instrumenten wie Gitarre, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, und Percussion auch ein Cello und Oud zu finden sind. „In der Musik zeigt sich meine Verbindung mit den 70er Jahren. Fast alle meine musikalischen Einflüsse sind afro-amerikanisch inspiriert: Stevie Wonder, Soul und Funk Musik und die Vorläufer des Hip-Hop. Ich denke, dass alle diese Einflüsse offensichtlich sind, und ich wollte einen Stempel, der das klar macht: 1970“.

Avishai Cohen, Kontrabass, E-Bass, Gesang
Itamar Doari, Percussion, Gesang
Karen Malka, Gesang
Yael Shapira, Cello, Gesang
Elyasaf Bishari, Oud, Gesang
Jonatan Daskal, Keyboard
Tal Kohavi, Schlagzeug

Recorded at Studio Ferber, Paris, France by Jay Newland assisted by Guillaume Dujardin
Mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios, in June 2017
Produced by Jay Newland, Avishai Cohen and Johnny Goldstein

Avishai Cohen
For four years running, Cohen has been voted a Rising Star-Trumpet in the DownBeat Critics Poll. Along with leading his Triveni trio with Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits, thetrumpeter was a member of the SF Jazz Collective for six years. He also records and tours the world with The 3 Cohens Sextet, the hit family band with his sister, clarinetist-saxophonist Anat, and brother, saxophonist Yuval. Declared All About Jazz: “To the ranks of the Heaths of Philadelphia, the Joneses of Detroit and the Marsalises of New Orleans, fans can now add the 3 Cohens of Tel Aviv.”

The trumpeter began performing in public in 1988 at age 10, playing his first solos with a big band and eventually touring with the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra to perform under the likes of maestros Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur and Kent Nagano. Having worked with Israeli folk and pop artists in his native country and appeared on television early on, Cohen arrived as an experienced professional musician when he took up a full scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1997, the young musician established an international reputation by placing third in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Trumpet Competition. Avishai came of age as a jazz player as part of the fertile scene at the club Smalls in New York’s West Village.

Cohen first recorded for ECM as part of saxophonist Mark Turner’s quartet on Lathe of Heaven, released in September 2014. The trumpeter has performed at the Village Vanguard and beyond with Turner, as well as widely in a band led by pianist Kenny Werner. Cohen has played often in the Mingus Big Band and Mingus Dynasty ensemble, and he has lent his horn to recordings by Anat Cohen, Yuval Cohen and keyboardist Jason Lindner, along with collaborating on stage and in the studio with French-Israeli pop singer Keren Ann. In addition to performing, Cohen was named the Artistic Director of the International Jerusalem Festival in 2015.

“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.” – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

Booklet for 1970