THIRD WORLD LOVE Returns To Its Jazz Roots With Stellar New Album, Songs and Portraits Anzic Records, April 24, 2012

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Avishai Cohen, Daniel Freedman, Omer Avital, Third World Love, Yonatan Avishai

Third World Love is Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonatan Avishai (piano),
Omer Avital (bass), Daniel Freedman (drums)

Third World Love, Songs and Portraits

CD Release Concerts/Celebrations:

The Checkout Live at 92Y Tribeca, NYC on April 26, 8:00 PM, on a double bill with Jason Lindner’s Now Vs. Now, 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, NYC, www.92Y.org

SF Jazz Spring Season – Israeli Jazz Fest on April 28, 8:00 PM Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, www.sfjazz.org

“This band is killer . . timeless.” –The New York Times

“The music sailed intensively in a universal space with influences of Monk, Jazz Messengers, Latino, Jewish Klezmer and Mingus style Tijuana beat, funk and dub . . .” – Ma’ariv (major Israeli daily)

Drummer/Percussionist/Composer Daniel Freedman Creates a Rhythmic Circumnavigation of The Planet on Bamako By Bus

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Avishai Cohen, Daniel Freedman, Drums, Jason Lindner, LIONEL LOUEKE, Mark Turner, Meshell Ndegeocello, Pedrito Martinez

Anzic Records to Release Bamako By Bus on April 24, 2012, featuring an all-star cast, including Avishai Cohen, Mark Turner, Jason Lindner, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lionel Loueke, Pedrito Martinez & others

Daniel Freedman, Bammako By Bus

Bamako By Bus, Daniel Freedman’s second album as a leader has all the earmarks of project produced by an artist in love with music itself, regardless of genre and category. Freedman, a world class percussionist who has been heard with a panoply of musicians from Angelique Kidjo and Sting to Youssou N’Dour, Tom Harrell and Anat Cohen, has shaped an album that calls on jazz, African and Cuban music, funk and pop, yet comes together as a unified and satisfying whole. With assists from Meshell Ndegeocello, Mark Turner, Lionel Loueke, Avishai Cohen, Jason Lindner, Pedrito Martinez and other handpicked participants, Freedman fashions Bamako By Bus into a personal reflection of his inclusive musical vision.

SFJAZZ Festival kicks off Today!!

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African American, Avishai Cohen, David Sanchez, Edward Simon, Greg Osby, Jazz, Matt Penman, Robin Eubanks

SFJAZZ FESTIVAL

San Francisco, CA (PRWE May 05, 2011) In a fitting tribute, nearly 100 years after the birth of the African American music tradition known as “jazz” – a West Coast slang term first used to refer to music in Chicago – SFJAZZ will build the nation’s first free-standing center solely dedicated to the presentation, education and preservation of the art form. On May 6, 2011, SFJAZZ, the largest nonprofit presenter of jazz and world music in America, kicks off the construction of the new SFJAZZ Center with a ceremonial groundbreaking event in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. The SFJAZZ Board of Trustees, donors, musicians and jazz fans alike have already raised over $46 million of the $60 million budgeted to create this state-of-the-art cultural center. Scheduled for completion in 2012 The SFJAZZ Center, designed by renowned architect Mark Cavagnero of Mark Cavagnero Associates, will be a transparent, 35,000-square-foot, freestanding LEED®-compliant structure that will provide artistic and education programs for the community.

Anzic Records To Release Introducing Triveni From Trumpeter/Composer AVISHAI COHEN

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Avishai Cohen, Jazz, Trumpet

Introducing Triveni is the first album from the trio of Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital and Nasheet Waits and the follow up recording to the critically acclaimed Flood

Available September 28 on Anzic Records – http://www.Anzicrecords.com

Avishai Cohen - Introducing TRIVENI

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On September 28, 2010 Anzic Records will release trumpeter/composer Avishai Cohen’s new recording, Introducing Triveni, featuring longtime collaborators and dear friends, Omer Avital on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. With Introducing Triveni,Cohen, now a member of the distinguished SF Jazz Collective, fulfills his artistic need to get back to music that is mainly improvised.

Triveni is a Sanskrit word borrowed from the name of the confluence of three rivers in India, the Triveni Sangam, which comprises two physical rivers, the Ganga and the Yumana, that meet with the mythical, mysterious Saraswati river. Avishai’s band Triveni has a similar makeup, as he explains; “Regarding Omer, I’ve been playing with him for so many years, we know each other well, we can hear where each other are going harmonically and vibe-wise, we know each other’s time feel very well, so it is very comfortable. He’s an incredible musician, composer and bass player. With Nasheet it’s exactly the opposite: always a mystery, always surprising. He’s such a force, such an incredible drummer that never plays anything but the music itself. No ‘licks’, no nonsense. Pure truth. And on top – swinging his ass off! I never know where he’s going and every show is a new and fresh experience.” Together – this combination of the known, Avishai (the Ganga), Omer (the Yumana), and the unknown in Nasheet (the Saraswati) creates a great balance and freshness which is a unique and powerful place to create music from.