Avishai Cohen Trio – review

Union Chapel, LondonSince the Israeli double-bassist and composer Avishai Cohen was promoting his new Seven Seas album without its horn section or oud soloist, and (most disconcertingly of all) without percussion master Itamar Doari, the omens weren't so good. Cohen can mix a cellist's purity with a headlong, string-slapping jazz momentum, like a one-man rhythm section, but in folk-crooning vocal mode he can veer into a distracting sentimentality. But he went for the edge instead with regular pi...

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