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Avishai Cohen

i recently heard this bassist/composer on the radio along with
his pianist sam barsh.  his compositions really blew me away to the
point that i want to buy his latest album.  anyone out here heart
this guy live!  it must be awsome!

by jmkarns on 11/17/2005, 10:41

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i've never heard cohen live, but i actually used to gig some with sam barsheshet when we were both highschoolers in chicago. he was a total monster then too, and i'd implore anyone to check him out.

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by on 11/17/2005, 10:57

if you haven't already, check out 'the fabulous baker boys'. another dave grusin score with some excellent piano arrangements.

one of my favourite music films...

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by Barry on 12/01/2005, 17:34

barsheshet is killen.

jmkarns, check out avishai on chick corea's album "past, present, and futures". so good.

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by Beverly Redding on 11/16/2005, 15:21

israeli power!! hehe, the guy is amazing

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by on 11/17/2005, 13:10

the guy is amazing. i love being reminded how lucky i am. i saw avishai live when he was performing with chick corea doing "past present and futures" it would have been great even if i had been in the back row of the auditorium - but i wasn't. it was in a small club, i had a keyboard view, less than 20 feet away and thought life couldn't get any better until bobby mcferrin jumped out of the audience and jammed with the ensemble for two songs. i think the smile on my face must have lasted at least two weeks.

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by Maree on 11/17/2005, 15:27

yeah, he certainly is an amazing player. i have adama, colors and unity and like all of them. i think colors is my favorite. interestingly enough, in the liner notes on colors, he talks about seeing chords, movements of compositions or whole compositions as certain colors. "e minor could be dark red and f major would be light blue". does anyone see music as colors?? there is a perfect pitch course out there that relates colors to certain notes. anyway, it's an interesting mystery to me.

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by pnowanabe on 11/17/2005, 17:20

i see music as colours at times. it's really wierd. like i get light blue/pink colours flashing through my head when i play the nocturne in f# minor of chopin. or i get green/brown shades when playing the first movement of the pathetique by beethoven. it's not really somthing i can explain. i also get colours for days of the week (friday = red, monday = orange/red, tuesday = blue, thursday = grey wednesday = orange, sunday and saturday = white)i know it sounds wierd but its 100% true... also for single notes. c = white, d = orange e=dark shade of some sort, f=pink g=red a=dark red b= i dunno.

anyways you probably think im really messed up in the head, but those shades pop up all the time when i play and i find them really helpful as far as expression is concerned.

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by on 11/19/2005, 04:26

inbi,
i don't think that you're messed up in the head at all, man. i've heard other musicians talk about seeing colors, one being elvin jones. i've heard that sound and light are inextricably linked together, where you have sound there's light(and therefore color) and vice versa. i just wish that i knew of some way to develop this ability. thanks for the post.
-jay

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by pnowanabe on 11/19/2005, 20:55

there was a thread several months back about people, and people on this forum, seeing colors -- fascinating. it might turn up with a search. i believe there's a formal name for the phenomenon but i sure can't remember it.

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by sdm on 11/20/2005, 14:20

i saw avishai last year in a tiny little club out in the sticks and the first 45 minutes was as good as anything i've heard for ages.  it was stunning.  unfortunately, in the second half he picked up a bass guitar and sam barsheshet started to play a melodica for a ridiculous version of caravan.  it really felt like they were taking the piss out of the audience - as if nobody could tell the difference.

unfortunately, it seemed there were only a few of us who could as they still got thunderous applause at the end.  i doubt they give a shit what i think but i did feel a little insulted.

nevertheless, if you get the chance to see this trio then go.  the first half of the gig was worth twice the entrance fee...

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