31
Mar
We saw Avishai Cohen at the Jazz Bakery recently. The world’s most amazing bassist. From Israel!
He had a trio, bass, piano and drums, and the other musicians were beyond superlative as well. The music mixed modern jazz, ethnic styles like Middle Eastern, Brazilian, and African influences, with folk, creating hypnotic cycles of chords in odd time signatures that were phenomenal. Blew my mind.
He is very entertaining to watch, very expressive, as are the drummer and pianist. At one point the drummer was playing a solo, and starting playing his legs. After that his sticks were just hitting air and making no sound.
Avishai is truly blazing trails in jazz, trails that haven’t been blazed since Miles.
