"Shaped by his origins as a Yemeni Jew, the fascinating voice of Ravid Kahalani brilliantly evokes the musical universe of his ancestors. Stretching like a slow caravan crossing the desert, it winds through West African blues and the thousand and one vibrations of the Sahara, Nubian, Gnawi, Touaregs, Saidi and Bambara. This luscious mix of jazz tonalities, which also crosses into funk, rings out as an ode to to African grooves and a modern echo of the ancestral rhythms. Ravid Kahalani creates a canvas printed both with deep emotions when his rasping laments tear open the heavens,but also with popular jubilation when the percussions, the oud, the celloand the brass instruments interweave in a harmonious dance that is complex and resolutely modern. A joyful oasis in the middle of the desert..."

Yemen blues is an original and a fascinating meeting between the traditional Yemenite melodies & the world of blues, jazz and funk. The flavors of the West African music roots and the enhanced modern compositions are bringing together a breathtaking experience mixture of beautiful complex grooves. Yemen Blues was founded by Ravid Kahalani, a talented singer who grew up to a traditional Yemanite family, learned the language and the traditional chants of his origin, and extended his influences in the areas of blues & west African soul, from the Sahara desert, thru the classical Opera singing to the Afro American blues. Ravid joined forces with Omer Avital, a well known bass player and compositor, and togehter they gathered 'Yemen Blues', a supergroup of top musicians from New york, Israel and Uruguay. Yemen Blues concerts are the ultimate celebration of African grooves, a pure happiness & deep emotion Yemenite singing, a new music experience and innovative sound.

The Flaming Lips' live show is an experience that is both indescribable and unbeatable. Finally the first live DVD from The Flaming Lips has arrived! 'U.F.O's at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City' captures the over-the-top spectacle of the band's first hometown show in several years. Filmed at the Zoo Amphitheatre in front of a capacity crowd of manic furry fanatics on Sept 15 2006, the film captures the sonic and visual sensory overload that is The Flaming Lips live experience!

As my search of Avishai's matirial continue, this great gig fell into my lap not long ago, and i had to share it with you - all of avishai's fan! this quartet is brilliant, and you can really fly with this concert, sweet sweet moments of jazz!! it has a great sound also!

"Shaped by his origins as a Yemeni Jew, the fascinating voice of Ravid Kahalani brilliantly evokes the musical universe of his ancestors. Stretching like a slow caravan crossing the desert, it winds through West African blues and the thousand and one vibrations of the Sahara, Nubian, Gnawi, Touaregs, Saidi and Bambara..

This is a recent show of Avishai in Swiss playing 'Seven Seas' at the Cully Jazz Festival with a Trio in a more 'Gently Disturbed' Vibes in it. on the drums is the new jazz prodigy from Israel the young Amir Bresler. The bassist and composer Avishai Cohen presents visionary jazz beyond genre boundaries. Having been with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on tour, he is now leader of a quintet and one of the most exciting musicians in contemporary jazz.

A Rudolf Rocker Release!; As Itamar Doari has just become a father and is less keen to tour, for his European tour in the Spring of 2011, Avishai returns to the "Gently Disturbed" format of a trio with kit drums, this time played by Amir Bresler, who debuted on Amos Hoffman's 2010 CD "Carving" before making his first live appearance with Avishai, Shai, Itamar, Karen and Amos at the Brosella open-air festival in Brussels on 11th July 2010 (unrecorded). The next week, on the 19th, the sextet played at Juan Les Pins in France, a concert broadcast by satellite television (available). The group would revert to a quintet for a concert recorded for NDR in Hamburg on November 18th (available), but following happy events in the Doari family, Amir Bresler would at last come to the fore in the reduced format of the acoustic trio of the European Spring 2011 tour...

This is a Celebration to the new TSF radio Station and the first concert where Avishai played 'Seven Seas' for the first time in public. The bassist and composer Avishai Cohen presents visionary jazz beyond genre boundaries. Having been with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on tour, he is now leader of a quintet and one of the most exciting musicians in contemporary jazz.

This is a recent show of Avishai in Swiss playing 'Seven Seas' at the Cully Jazz Festival with a Trio in a more 'Gently Disturbed' Vibes in it. on the drums is the new jazz prodigy from Israel the young Amir Bresler. The bassist and composer Avishai Cohen presents visionary jazz beyond genre boundaries. Having been with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on tour, he is now leader of a quintet and one of the most exciting musicians in contemporary jazz.

This is a Celebration to the new TSF radio Station and the first concert where Avishai played 'Seven Seas' for the first time in public. The bassist and composer Avishai Cohen presents visionary jazz beyond genre boundaries. Having been with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on tour, he is now leader of a quintet and one of the most exciting musicians in contemporary jazz.

This concert at Juan Les Pins Features the Young Drummer - Amir Bresler who also Played in Amos Hoffman's Last solo album 'Carving' .

"Aurora finds Avishai Cohen not only playing acoustic and electric bass, but also playing acoustic piano and electric keyboards and singing. In fact, he does a great deal of singing on this 2008 recording -- which will come as a surprise to those who think of Cohen as strictly an instrumentalist. Aurora is by no means an easy album to categorize; at the risk of oversimplifying things, one possible description could be "world jazz meets post-bop meets adult alternative."...

This is the full Bremen 2008 gig of Avishai Cohen with a Trio (the first Show with Itamar Doari Replacing Mark Guiliana).

Live In Marciac 2006 is a fiery, foot-on-the-accelerator mix of valse musettes, straight-ahead jazz, tunes derived from European and South American folk songs, a handful of tangos and a splash of the classics. It's physical, attacking music, and it pauses to catch its breath on just two tracks (the wistful, elegiac "Spleen" and the prettily balletic "Sanfona").

Last year, we left Avishai Cohen with Aurora, his first record with Blue Note. On this opus brimming with heady charm, the double-bass player, composer, pianist and arranger added yet another string to his bow: vocals, a talent he had discreetly deployed on some previous recordings, now asserted loud and clear. Aurora showcased Avishai Cohen’s talent in a new light: the composer with wandering lyrics, the phenomenal musician, the astounding stage performer, the one Chick Corea called a genius, the musician that Down Beat defined as a jazz visionary, all stepped aside to reveal a vocalist with a gentle voice and cosmopolitan tone, with Hebrew and Arab-Andalusian overtones...