Avishai Cohen & Yonathan Avishai - Playing The Room (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important contributions to Avishai's group albums Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver on ECM.

Their first duo album begins with music composed by the trumpeter and by the pianist and concludes with a touching interpretation of Israeli composer Alexander Argov's cradle song "Shir Eres". Along the way, Avishai and Yonathan improvise – freely, playfully, soulfully – on themes from jazz tradition. And, as the album titles implies, they also invite the recording space, the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in Lugano, to be part of the sound, making full use of its resonant acoustic properties in a performance with the intimacy and focus of chamber music.

Recorded in September 2018, and produced by Manfred Eicher, Playing The Room is available as both audiophile vinyl album and compact disc.

Tracklist:
1. Waiting for a Woman 04:28
2. Cut Me Some Slack 04:21
3. Liberty Lane 03:42
4. I See You're in Some Trouble 03:46
5. Backing Off 04:12
6. I Wanna Run Away with You 03:23
7. Backbone 03:03
8. Better Take Care 03:34
9. Falling off the World 03:29
10. Get out of My Head 03:24
11. Running out of Time 03:29

Personnel:
Avishai Cohen (trumpet)
Yonathan Avishai (piano)