Cross My Palm with Silver Archives - Cultural Attaché https://culturalattache.co/tag/cross-my-palm-with-silver/ The Guide to Arts and Culture events in and around Los Angeles Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:56:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Sense of Discovery: Jazz Pianist Gadi Lehavi https://culturalattache.co/2017/09/16/sense-discovery-jazz-pianist-gadi-lehavi/ https://culturalattache.co/2017/09/16/sense-discovery-jazz-pianist-gadi-lehavi/#respond Sat, 16 Sep 2017 19:15:20 +0000 http://culturalattache.co/?p=998 Last night I attended the first of two nights by the Avishai Cohen Quartet at the bluewhale in Little Tokyo. I fully knew what to expect from Cohen whose album Cross My Palm with Silver is one of my favorites of the year. What I didn’t expect was the amazing pianist who performs in the quartet: […]

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Last night I attended the first of two nights by the Avishai Cohen Quartet at the bluewhale in Little Tokyo. I fully knew what to expect from Cohen whose album Cross My Palm with Silver is one of my favorites of the year. What I didn’t expect was the amazing pianist who performs in the quartet: Gadi Lehavi.

From what I’ve been able to learn since last night, he was a prodigy at the Berklee School of Music. That word gets tossed around far too easily, but even his own instructor aptly referred to him as such in this clip:

Last night his playing was so sublime. And inventive. And imaginative. And passionate. Simply put, I was blown away. And he’s only 21. Cohen knew what he was doing when he asked him along for the tour.

In this clip, which is 5 years old, he is at the Blue Note with his own arrangement of “Legend.”

If you don’t have plans tonight (Saturday), I strongly urge you to hear some amazing music. I think you’ll be just as blown away by this young master pianist as I was. And for the record, Avishai Cohen is certainly one of the best trumpet players in jazz right now. If you go, you’ll be glad you saw him in a club of this size.

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