Into the Silence

 
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Avishai Cohen
Into the Silence

[ ECM / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 12 February 2016

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Avishai Cohen impressed a lot of listeners with his soulful contributions to Mark Turner's Lathe of Heaven album in 2014. Now the charismatic Tel Aviv-born trumpeter has his ECM leader debut in a program of expansive and impressionistic compositions for jazz quartet (trumpet, piano, bass, drums), augmented by tenor saxophone on a few pieces.

Into The Silence is dedicated to the memory of Avishai's father David, reflecting upon the last days of his life with grace and restraint. Avishai's tender muted trumpet sets the emotional tone of the music in the album's opening moments and his gifted cast of musicians explore its implications.

Israeli pianist Yonathan Avishai has played with Cohen in many settings and solos creatively inside the trumpeters haunting compositions, sometimes illuminating them with the phraseology of the blues. Cohen and drummer Nasheet Waits have a hypersensitive understanding and their interaction can, from moment to moment, recall the heyday of Miles Davis and Tony Williams or Don Cherry and Billy Higgins. Yet this music, while acknowledging inspirational sources, is very much of our time.

Bassist Eric Revis, a cornerstone of the Branford Marsalis quartet for two decades, provides elegant support throughout. And saxophonist Bill McHenry, a subtle modernist who has worked with Paul Motian and Andrew Cyrille, shadows Cohen's lines with feeling.

Into The Silence was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in July 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Avishai Cohen: trumpet
Yonathan Avishai: piano
Eric Revis: double bass
Nasheet Waits: drums
Bill McHenry: tenor saxophone

Tracks:

Life and Death
Dream Like A Child
Into the Silence
Quiescence
Behind the Broken Glass
Life and Death - Epilogue