Avishai Cohen

Avishai Cohen finished Gently Disturbed, his last trio album released by the label he founded (Razdaz Recordz) before signing with Blue Note, like a musical banquet with Structure in Emotion. The melody was important to him, as it had been featured on the first album he recorded on his own label in 2003: Lyla .

Avishai Cohen’s music shoots like torrential emotion without ever getting mushy, inappropriately lyrical or too campy. The structure of the tracks and their intimate architecture are surprising, eventful and hang like a melodic bomb of peace or destruction. His compositions harvest emotion and hold it to better cultivate it, as to retain its energy along the road that brings it to the ears of the audiences.

With Seven Seas , the Jerusalem-born and Tel-Aviv resident has become one of the most popular jazzmen of the decade. He is pushing his pushing his artistic journey through the roof. The stand-up bass player climbed a new step on his artistic ascent.

At 40, it might be the proverbial “maturity album” if that didn’t sound so serious. No, one is not serious at 40 yet, and Avishai Cohen remains “gently disturbed”. So we might bring up the album’s diversity and we may be getting close to an “album-odyssey”. The title evokes the legendary Seven seas, and is the most exciting and surprising journey recorded by the Israel musician.

Avishai Cohen : Stand up bass

Amir Bresler : Drums

Nitay Hershkovitz : Piano