Avishai was born in Kabri, a kibbutz in northern Israel, and he has both Spanish-Jewish, Greek-Jewish and Polish-Jewish ancestry. He grew also up in a musical family at Motza and Beit Zayit near Jerusalem until the age of six, when his family moved to nearby Shoeva. And like many great jazz-player so did he began to play piano before he was 10-years old. But for some reason so was it more fun to play bas. So he chached over to the bass guitar when he was 14 after he had heard Jaco Pastorius. Whose music was introduced to Cohen by a music teacher in St Louis, Missouri, where he had moved with his family as a teenager.
Beneath the Bassline - Lost Backstage
(Self)
Avishai Cohen Trio and Bohuslän Big Band
(Himself)
Avishai Cohen au Paléo Festival de Nyon
(Himself)
Tel Aviv Beirut
(Avishai)
Avishai Cohen - Live At 30. Leverkusener Jazztage
(Himself)
Avishai Cohen Quartet - Festival San Javier
(Himself)
Avishai Cohen - Aurora - Live Enghien Jazz Festival
(Himself)
Avishai Cohen Trio – Shifting sands
(Avishai Cohen)
Like a Beating Heart
Avishai Cohen - Seven Seas Cully Jazz Festival 2011
(double bass, vocals)
Avishai Cohen - As Is...Live at the Blue Note
(Bass)
Avishai Cohen Quartet - Montreux Jazz Festival 2013
(electricbass - double bass)
Chick Corea New Trio-Rendezvous In New York
(Basso)
Chick Corea Rendezvous in New York - Chick Corea & Origin
(Bass)
VA - Jazz Intermezzo Vol.6
Avishai Cohen Symphony