Avishai Cohen in Lucerne

Avishai Cohen is an Israeli double bassist, composer and vocalist, born in 1970. He plays contemporary jazz informed by bebop and Middle Eastern musical traditions, and is known for albums including Adama, Continuo, Gently Disturbed and Seven Seas. In the late 1990s, Cohen toured as a member of Chick Corea’s Origin and New Trio. He later established his own touring ensembles, often centered on double bass, piano and drums, and documented one of those groups in New York on the concert album As Is... Live at the Blue Note.