Playing The Room

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A refreshingly contradictory set, both warmly inviting and firmly assertive. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: 7752277
Label: ECM
Length: 45 minutes

The Opening

Work length4:32

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Yonathan Avishai: Two Lines

Work length6:25

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Coltrane: Crescent

Work length8:28

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Ellington: Azalea

Work length3:41

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Ibrahim: Kofifi Blue

Work length6:29

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Coleman, O: Dee Dee

Work length3:28

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Milt Jackson: Ralph's New Blues

Work length4:33

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Wonder: Sir Duke

Work length3:41

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Alexander Argov: Shir Eres (Lullaby)

Work length4:35

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Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano)
Recorded: 2018-09-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

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Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important contributions to Avishai’s group albums Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver on ECM.

Their first duo album begins with music composed by the trumpeter and by the pianist and concludes with a touching interpretation of Israeli composer Alexander Argov’s cradle song “Shir Eres”. Along the way, Avishai and Yonathan improvise - freely, playfully, soulfully - on themes from jazz tradition. And, as the album titles implies, they also invite the recording space, the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in Lugano, to be part of the sound, making full use of its resonant acoustic properties in a performance with the intimacy and focus of chamber music.

Recorded in September 2018, and produced by Manfred Eicher, Playing The Room is available as both audiophile vinyl album and compact disc.

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December 2019

A refreshingly contradictory set, both warmly inviting and firmly assertive.

October 2019

This is a gorgeous set – another delicate exploration of brass tonality, restrained improv eloquence and quiet empathy from the New York-based Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen and his long-time piano partner Yonathan Avishai – the latter also an inspired foil for Cohen’s lyricism and flawless control on the trumpeter’s recent ECM triumphs, Into The Silence, and Cross My Palm With Silver.

November 2019

This lively and tender exploration of the two musicians’ friendship shows how their skills have deepened together through a mutual dedication to the music

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