Avishai Cohen
Introducing Triveni
Anzic Records LLC
www.AvishaiCohenMusic.com
By George W. Harris

“You Made Me Love You…I Didn’t Want To Do It…”

Horn lead trio albums are usually real risky, and almost always a self indulgent failure. Essentially, only Sonny Rollins has done it right, and he did it twice (being the Bob Beamon of trio records). Trumpeter Avishai Cohen takes a major chance with Omer Avital/b and Nasheet Watts/dr, and, you know what? He really gets it right!!
Spacious, adventurous, yet always lyrical and swinging, Cohen delivers a masterful mix of originals and standards here, knowing exactly when to walk, run or fly. He can stretch out for 12 minutes and still keep your interest on his own exciting “Ferrara Napoly,” or he can be evocatively moody as on Ellington’s “Mood Indigo.” Watts and Avital get plenty of time to converse amongst themselves, and the clever interplay always keeps you interested and guessing, as on Coltrane’s “Wise One” or the gentle “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To.” Cohen’s horn is expressive without being gaudy and gentle without being maudlin. A walk off homer on the first pitch!