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. 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 – 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, was written after the tragic events of Oct. 7th, 2023. The title comes from the Japanese concept of Kintsugi (transformation through repair) where the process of repair doesn’t aim to restore the item to its original state but transform it into a new creation with its own unique identity. 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.
Cohen, the Founding Artistic Director of the Jerusalem Jazz Festival, has also been voted a Rising Star on three consecutive occasions in the DownBeat Critics Poll.
