Avishai Cohen

Jazz Album Review: Avishai Cohen’s “Ashes to Gold” — A Lyrical Response to Tragedy

October 25, 2024
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The music in Avishai Cohen’s album, written and recorded soon after Oct 7, expresses a persistent hopeful gentleness.

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Jazz Album Review: Avishai Cohen’s “Naked Truth” — Meditating on the Last Things

February 18, 2022
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To this listener, the quartet generates a drama of gradual enlightenment, as if extroversion signified some sort of illumination.

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Jazz Review: Danilo Pérez & Jazz 100 at Sanders Theater — Surprise after Surprise

October 20, 2016
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With an artist as focused and sharp as Danilo Pérez as its musical director, Jazz 100 makes you sit up straight and hang on every note.

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Jazz Review: SF Jazz Collective at Berklee, 3/8/13—This Year’s Model

March 14, 2013
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The members of the Collective seem to have an understanding that their job is to make music that reflects a group identity as well as their individual personalities.

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