AVISHAI COHEN
THEATRE LINO VENTURA, 168 BD DE L'ARIANE, 06300 Nice Directions
Fri 16.10.2026 20:30
Figure majeure du jazz contemporain, Avishai Cohen s’est imposé comme l’un des contrebassistes et compositeurs les plus singuliers de sa génération. Virtuose sans jamais être démonstratif, il développe depuis plusieurs décennies une musique intensément vivante, où le jazz dialogue avec les couleurs du Moyen-Orient, les rythmes méditerranéens, les mélodies populaires et une grande liberté d’improvisation. Sur scène, Avishai Cohen déploie un univers à la fois puissant, lyrique et profondément organique. Sa contrebasse devient tour à tour moteur rythmique, voix mélodique et centre de gravité d’un groupe en perpétuel mouvement. Les compositions respirent, s’élancent, se tendent, se suspendent, portées par une énergie collective rare et une recherche permanente de l’émotion juste. Entre grooves irrésistibles, ballades suspendues, éclats de virtuosité et moments de pure intensité, le concert traverse toute la richesse de son langage musical. On y retrouve cette façon unique de mêler sophistication harmonique, ferveur populaire et sens du chant, dans une musique accessible, exigeante et profondément humaine. Un rendez-vous incandescent avec un artiste incontournable, capable de faire danser les rythmes, chanter les silences et vibrer le jazz dans toute sa modernité.
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Avishai Cohen
Avishai Cohen (born 1970 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli jazz bassist, composer and arranger. He was raised by a musical family, and as a child he started playing piano. After a few years he moved to the bass guitar. Later, after playing in the army for a while, he moved to New York City. After performing some small clubs, he was noticed by Chick Corea and was given a record contract. He has performed in two of Chick Corea's bands, "Origin" and the "Chick Corea New Trio".
After having recorded "Adama" in 1997 and "Colors" three years later, Avishai decided to create his own label in 2003. The label released its debut CD, "Lyla" in September 2003. In February of 2005 Razdaz Recordz released "At Home", an album that was arguably Avishai Cohen's most compelling and striking new recording to date.
That is until the artist conceived of, and recorded his newest studio CD, the spectacularly beautiful, "Continuo". Cohen’s third recording on his label Razdaz Recordz, and his seventh as a leader, was recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden in December 2005 with Avishai's core trio of pianist/keyboardist Sam Barsh and drummer/percussionist Mark Guiliana.
With the 2007 release of "As Is . . . Live at The Blue Note" (CD/DVD), for the first time ever, audiences can now revel in the groove, melody, power, excitement and beauty of an Avishai Cohen performance at home, repeatedly. This live album is the definitive and final documentation of this trio as Avishai takes the band in an exciting new direction with the arrival of the young Israeli piano virtuoso Shai Maestro, poised to take over where the brilliant Sam Barsh left off.
New album "Gently Disturbed" released in 2008 performed by Avishai's trio. Avishai also shows more of his "Avishai Cohen & Ensemble" on their world tour.
