Trumpeter and former SFJAZZ Collective member Avishai Cohen and his quartet perform his composition “Ashes to Gold (Pt. 2)” from his 2024 ECM Records album “Ashes to Gold” during their concert on March 16, 2024 – part of the 2024-25 Season and broadcast on Fridays Live.

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About this concert:
The supremely inventive Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen, a familiar Bay Area presence from his six-year stint in the SFJAZZ Collective, focuses on music from his newest release for ECM Records, 2024’s "Ashes to Gold” with his quartet featuring pianist Tom Oren, bassist Barak Mori, and drummer Ziv Ravitz.

The Tel Aviv native is a multiple DownBeat Critics Poll winner and an artist of rare range and clarion tone who has excelled through work as a bandleader with his trio Triveni, as part of the world-fusion collective Third World Love, in sideman settings with Jason Lindner, Mark Turner, and Omer Avital, and as part of the band 3 Cohens with his siblings, clarinetist Anat and saxophonist Yuval.

With “Ashes to Gold,” Cohen documents the intense range of emotions he experienced while in Tel Aviv at the start of the Israeli-Hamas war. The title was inspired by the Japanese art of ceramic repair called “kintsugi,” which the trumpeter defines as “where you take the old and the broken and try and put the pieces back together to make something golden and beautiful from the fragments.”

PERSONNEL:
Avishai Cohen: trumpet
Tom Oren: piano
Barak Mori: bass
Ziv Ravitz: drums
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