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Avishai Cohen Trio with Roni Kaspi and Man Moskovich.
(Théatre Maisonneuve. 30 June 2023. Assessment by Sebastian Scotney*)
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How uncommon it’s for a side-woman or sideman to obtain her or his personal private standing ovation mid-number, within the full move of a gig. I’m wracking my mind and I don’t suppose I’ve ever seen it earlier than. It occurred final night time in a full 1500-seater corridor right here, the Théatre Maisonneuve, close to the tip of Avishai Cohen’s tune “Seven Seas” (set listing under). The viewers was all of a sudden on its toes… and the recipient of the appreciation, having simply performed an prolonged and significantly zestful drum solo…was Roni Kaspi.
It felt like a type of moments which captures an vital side of what a band is about. Avishai Cohen has been a constant nurturer and developer of expertise for greater than twenty years. It’s a half, certainly an vital half, of what he does. At some point – who is aware of when, there’s no hurry, she is simply 23 years outdated this month – Kaspi will break away and profit totally from the advantages of all of the profile-building and the expertise which have come by being a member of this band. Final night time there have been a number of examples of her craft. On “Dvash” from the “Shifting Sands album, the tune is like an invite to softly present it with all types of cross-rhythms, whereas “Intertwined” the fabric is extra of an encouragement to kick in onerous and oppose the move. Sensible once more. Izzy Blankfield wrote beautifully and intimately for us about this in her overview of the group on the 2021 LJF (hyperlink to overview under.)
The mentoring and constructing continues: a brand new title within the group is pianist Man Moskovich (b.1996). He’s clearly one other drive to be reckoned with, and already seems to have the whole pad of tunes, and all of the prolonged vamping and comping fully taped, knowig the way to give the others their spring board, and in addition taking the lead and letting the complete piano sound resound in his solos. I used to be significantly taken along with his sense of timing and move in transitions and tempo and mood-shifts. Actually elegant. Cohen himself presides, takes energetic solos, there’s a basic steadiness and sense of rightness about him.
Avishai Cohen himself acknowledged that he prefers enjoying to creating bulletins, however he did specific pleasure and reduction that the trio was really acting at this yr’s competition, having had extreme transport issues final yr. And – as ever –the nice and cozy and effectively disposed Montreal crowd, relieved that the trio was lastly there, realizing precisely what to anticipate, beloved each second.
On the finish of the night MIJF co-founder André Ménard offered the competition’s Miles Davis Award to the bassist, remembering that he has been a fixture right here for many of his skilled life, and Cohen acknowledged what a particular factor it has been in his profession to have had such assist.
MONTREAL SET LIST
Signature
Dreaming
The Window
Under
Intertwined
Dvash
Chutzpan (from “Gently Disturbed”)
Shifting Sands
Hitragut from “Shifting Sands”
Seven Seas
Encores:
Remembering
New tune in 13/8
(*) Sebastian is in Montreal as a visitor of FIJM
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