(ECM)There are two Israeli Avishai Cohens on the jazz circuit – the famous bass-playing composer,and the younger New York-based trumpeter who leads this fascinating session, and who is likewise an instrumental master and a composer of vivid originality. Into the Silence is a set of reflections on the death of Cohen’s father – often solemn but never dirgey, and beautifully recorded. The pieces join classically pure trumpet soliloquies,grainier trumpet-sax exchanges that recall Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter’s 60s dialogues, a mercurial rhythm section (Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits), or piano playing of shapely minimalism from Yonathan Avishai. Cohen’s muted trumpet wreathes over Waits’s soundless brushwork and rises with Bill McHenry’s tenor sax over arrhythmic rimshots; New York adrenalin segues into resolute melancholy,and piano ostinatos bring to mind early Abdullah Ibrahim hooks. The breadth of jazz references will make this irresistible for fans, but it’s lovely modern music for just approximately anyone.
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Source: theguardian.com