The versatile Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen has a pure, Miles-minded tone well served by the fastidious production of ECM Records honcho Manfred Eicher. On his most recent ECM album, 2017’s Cross My Palm with Silver, Cohen leads a quartet—pianist Yonathan Avishai, bassist Barak Mori, and drummer Nasheet Waits—through five meditative originals inspired by current events. “Theme for Jimmy Greene,” for instance, is a tribute to the saxophonist whose daughter was killed in the Sandy Hook massacre. Cohen’s live quartet differs slightly from the album’s, with Ziv Ravitz replacing Waits. Wed 3.20 7:30 and 9:30pm. $20/$25. 408 St Peter St., St Paul, More info here.—Dylan Hicks, City Pages
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Tonight at Vieux Carré: Avishai Cohen Quartet. The esteemed German label ECM is celebrating its 50th birthday and touring several of its artists this spring. Sun of Goldfinger played Icehouse on Monday, and tonight the Avishai Cohen Quartet will perform at the basement jazz club in St. Paul (down the hall from the Park Square’s Andy Boss Stage). Israeli-born trumpeter Cohen, brother to clarinetist Anat and soprano saxophonist Yuval, has made three albums to date with ECM; his latest, “Cross My Palm with Silver,” is spacious, reflective and ravishing. The quartet features Fabian Almazan on piano, Barak Mori on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums. 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. FMI. —Pamela Espeland, Minnpost Artscape