The Green Man Review Features "Into The Silence"

“Seeing Cohen fronting a quartet in mid-2015 didn’t prepare me for the quiet impact of this quite different set of music. It did, however, prepare me to recognize the 30-something Cohen as a disciple of (among others) Miles Davis. So the opening section of the first track here, “Life and Death,” with its somber, Bill Evans-like chording from pianist Yonathan Avishai behind Cohen’s muted trumpet was more confirmation than revelation. It’s one of the more straightforward works on this date, with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Nasheet Waits sketching the minimal rhythm as Cohen and Avishai explore Cohen’s modal piece.”

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Classicalite Reviews "Into The Silence"

“The mournful sad tones of Avishai of the Cohens liken the leader to Miles Davis: muted, underscored with piano/bass/drums plus tenor sax, and filled with a longing that won’t ever go away. The sibling Cohens of Israel-clarinetist/saxophonist sister Anat, sax man brother Yuval and trumpeter Avishai-could be construed to be like the Marsalis family of New Orleans, the Heaths of Philly or the Joneses of Detroit. The bustling metropolis of Tel Aviv was where they grew to fruition as The 3 Cohens Sextet. Now, with Into The Silence (ECM), Avishai has put his grief over the death of their father into music.”

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Avishai Cohen's Into The Silence - "A Masterpiece"

“Besides being Cohen’s finest composing and playing to date, Into the Silence is an extraordinary project on every level. There is a transcendence in this music that is both uplifting and heartbreaking. The group plays as one, they genuinely feel an appreciation of humanity and life-changing ramifications of loss. The rendering of these compositions is never over-sentimental, but never less than authentic. A masterpiece.”

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Blurt Features Avishai Cohen's "Into The Silence"

“Trumpeter Avishai Cohen made his name with a pair of outfits: the family band 3 Cohens Sextet and the aggressively improvisational trio Triveni. For his latest solo album, however, he moves into a more contemplative, even melancholy mood. Into the Silence pays tribute to the Tel Aviv-born/NYC-based composer’s late father, who had always wanted to be a musician himself but couldn’t, instead passing his love on to his children.”

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AllMusic Reviews "Into The Silence"

“Trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s ECM debut, 2016’s Into the Silence, is a ruminative, elegiac album far — if not completely — removed from the kinetic, aggressive post-bop of his 2014 effort, Dark Nights. As with all ECM releases, Into the Silence was produced by label founder Manfred Eicher and, as such, fits nicely into the catalog next to works by the late trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and others. In some ways, Cohen’s move toward a more classical, ambient sound makes sense, as he is recording material specifically with the ECM stylistic tradition in mind. Sadly, Cohen also composed these songs in the wake of his father’s death, and the trumpeter’s grief seems to permeate everything on Into the Silence.”

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Something Else Features "Into The Silence"

“Recently ECM Records founder and head honcho Manfred Eicher has been corralling some of the most talented jazz musicians working in NYC into his record label: the additions of Tim Berne, Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn and Ches Smith have given this traditionally Euro-centered label a tilt toward the west side of the pond a little more than before. But with Eicher’s spotless work behind the boards, the personality of the ECM brand is often just as strong as the personalities of the musicians themselves.

Now, trumpeter Avishai Cohen becomes the latest from the New York gang to record as a leader for this fabled label, and for Cohen’s ECM debut Into The Silence (February 12, 2016), the music bears the strong mark of Eicher’s production touch. For this particular case, it’s exactly what Cohen needed.”

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Epoch Times Features The Cohens

“I could easily write a book about Israeli jazz musicians or at least a chapter on The Three Cohens, two brothers and a sister from Tel Aviv, who have achieved stardom together and separately.

Anat Cohen has been leading Downbeat polls as the top clarinet player for years, and she is also a powerful sax player. Her latest album, “Luminosa,” is focused on Brazilian music. (The Brazilian Press hailed her as “an Israeli who seems like a Brazilian when she plays samba.”)

Trumpeter Avishai Cohen, Anat’s brother, has just released his first album on the ECM label, “Into the Silence.” This is a haunting CD in which Avishai’s muted trumpet expresses the pain of loss. The album is a jazz instrumental requiem for his father. He wrote most of the tunes in the six months after his father’s death.”

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bebop spoken here Reviews "Into The Silence"

“The music was composed 6 months after the death of his father. The opening track Life and Death sets the tone of the entire album – brooding, melancholy, sensitive and moving. Dream Like a Child is a reference to how his father’s family couldn’t afford to give him music lessons so he made sure all of his 3 children had the opportunity denied to him. This was a clear success as all 3 of his children (Avishai, Anat & Yuval) went on to become professional musicians even forming a successful family band ‘The 3 Cohens’. This piece, at just over 15 minutes, builds up from a classical style introduction to a more up-tempo conclusion driven by the very sympathetic rhythm section.”

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All About Jazz Reviews "Into The Silence"

“Trumpeter Avishai Cohen makes his ECM leader debut with Into the Silence, an album dedicated to the memory of his late father. Cohen composed the melodies over six months following his father’s passing in November 2014, inspired by an album of Rachmaninoff’s solo piano music. It’s not always sad music—this is not a collection of dirges—but it does maintain a contemplative mood throughout. Cohen says “The title of the song and album refers to the silence of absence, the way you see pictures of someone who is gone but you don’t really hear them in your life anymore.”

Cohen found an empathetic group to share this personal vision. The core quartet features him and two longtime collaborators: pianist Yonathan Avishai (a decade-long co-member in multicultural band Third World Love) and busy New York drummer Nasheet Waits (also in Cohen’s trio Triveni). Bassist Eric Revis, a mainstay of the Branford Marsalis Quartet for two decades, has also been a rhythm section partner with Waits in multiple bands. Tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry joins in on three tracks (he has played with Paul Motian and Andrew Cyrille, but had previously only played with Cohen informally).”

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deVolkskrant (NL) Reviews "Into The Silence"

“Je wordt meteen gegrepen door het samenspel van Cohen, met gedempte trompet, en pianist Yonathan Avishai, waarmee het album opent. Het kwintet van Miles Davis van pakweg 1956 is de referentie. Maar Cohen loopt met zijn eigen akoestische band snel van zijn grote voorbeeld vandaan. De lange, open composities ademen rust en contemplatie. Een enkele keer duikt saxofonist Bill McHenry op om Cohen een beetje uit te dagen, of roffelt Waits de nummers even los. Maar het spel op dit zeer fraaie album blijft ingehouden en de sfeer stemmig.”

“You will be immediately captivated by the interplay of Cohen, with muted trumpet, and pianist Yonathan Avishai, which opens the album. The quintet of Miles Davis from say 1956 is the reference. But Cohen walks with his acoustic band quickly from his great example from. The long, open compositions exude tranquility and contemplation. Occasionally saxophonist Bill McHenry emerges to Cohen a bit challenging, or Waits roffelt the numbers for a moment. But the game in this very beautiful album remains restrained and sober atmosphere.”

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