avishai cohen
Avishai Cohen (born April 20, 1970) is an Israeli jazz double bassist, composer, singer, and arranger.
Avishai was born in Kabri, a kibbutz in northern Israel.[1] He has Spanish-Jewish, Greek-Jewish and Polish-Jewish ancestry. He grew up in a musical family at Motza and Beit Zayit near Jerusalem until the age of six, when his family moved to nearby Shoeva. He began playing the piano at 9 years old but changed to the bass guitar at the age of 14, inspired by bassist Jaco Pastorius, whose music was introduced to Cohen by a music teacher in St Louis, Missouri, where Cohen had moved with his family as a teenager. When his family moved back to Israel he joined the Music and Arts Academy in Jerusalem with a focus on acoustic bass.
©Roger Thomas 2017 - mingus999@hotmail.com / Avishai Cohen - An Evening with / Barbican, London / Thur 9th February 2017 / Avishai Cohen - bass, vocals / Omri Mor - piano / Itamar Doari - percussion / BBC Concert Orchestra / Basien Still - conductor /
