Avishai Cohen (Hebrew: אבישי כהן; born April 20, 1970) is an Israeli jazz double bassist, composer, singer, and arranger.
Early life
Avishai Cohen was born in Kabri, a kibbutz in northern Israel. He has Sephardic, Greek-Jewish, and Polish-Jewish ancestry. He grew up in a musical family at Motza and Beit Zayit near Jerusalem until the age of six, when his family moved to nearby Shoeva. He began playing the piano at 9 years old but changed to the bass guitar at the age of 14, inspired by bassist Jaco Pastorius, whose music was introduced to him by a music teacher in St Louis, Missouri, where he had moved with his family as a teenager. When his family moved back to Israel, he joined the Music and Arts Academy in Jerusalem with a focus on acoustic bass.
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