The purity of sound at its peak It was in February 2016 that trumpeter Avishai Cohen - not to be confused with his namesake double bass player - made a big impression by releasing on the prestigious German label ECM one of the most beautiful albums of the year 2016, "Into the silence" , who received the Grand Prix de l'Académie du Jazz in 2017. The one who had deployed all the energy of his post-bop playing, notably alongside saxophonist Mark Turner, then delivered a demanding meditative music, an infinitely pure sound and very intimate and deeply moving compositions.

Avishai Cohen is globally recognized as a musician with an individual sound and a questing spirit, an ever-creative player-composer open to multiple strains of jazz and active as a leader, co-leader and sideman.

In his latest album,  Naked Truth, you find a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen’s trumpet sound. Very much music-of-the moment, found and shaped in the course of a remarkable recording session in the South of France, Naked Truth takes the form of an extemporaneous suite. For most of its length the Israeli trumpeter painstakingly leads the way, closely shadowed by his long-time comrades — pianist Yonathan Avishai, bassist Barak Mori and drummer Ziv Ravitz — who share an intuitive understanding, hyper alert to the music’s subtly-changing emphases.

Cast: Avishai Cohen Quartet, Avishai Cohen (Trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (Piano), Yoni Zelnik (Double Bass), Nasheet Waits (Drums)