Israeli native Avishai Cohen channelled his passion for jazz into the bass as a teen, inspired by the likes of Jaco Pastorius. In the early '90s, Cohen's flexibility and harmonic prowess led to projects in New York alongside pianists Chick Corea and Danilo Perez and fuelled explorations into Latin sounds. Recordings after 1998 show him stepping into his own with a meditative yet exploratory approach that entwined global influences, particularly Sephardic music, within richly melodic post-bop. After returning to Israel in 2008, he steadily expanded his stylistic reach, encompassing pop-inflected tunes and sweeping themes for film and orchestra.